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Table 4
FOUNDATION FOR THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD CEO FORUM SURVEY
Row percents
26 Jun 98

C. CHANGING IMPORTANCE OF STAKEHOLDERS AND INTERESTS
Q4. In ten years time, at the end of the next decade, do you think any of the following stakeholders will be more or less important to successful companies than they are today?

  BASE MORE
IMPORTANT
LESS
IMPORTANT
NO
DIFFERENCE
DON'T
KNOW
International customers 308 90% 2% 6% 2%
Consumers 308 76% 1% 22% 1%
Employees 308 75% 4% 20% 1%
Suppliers 308 67% 5% 28% 1%
Outside board directors 308 63% 7% 27% 3%
Institutional shareholders 308 61% 8% 30% 2%
The ability to work well with different stakeholders 308 50% 41% 7% 1%
Communities where companies are based 308 48% 19% 31% 1%
The public (i.e., public opinion) 308 44% 7% 47% 2%
The media 308 31% 13% 56% 1%
Government (federal, state and local) 308 23% 28% 48% 2%
Individual shareholders 308 21% 46% 32% 2%
Unions 308 4% 70% 23% 3%

Louis Harris & Associates




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Date created: 6/28/1998
Last updated: 8/14/2001