Monday, March 10, 2014

Shareholder/Stockholder vs. Stakeholder.

There are some words that have exactly the same meaning:
Shareholder = stockholder
If you wanted to buy one share of stock in Google it would cost you today Dh 4,460 ($1214).  This would make you a part owner of Google.  You are a shareholder/stockholder.  It means the same.

Stakeholder is anyone affected by an organization.  Even though you and I don't own Google stock we are affected by how Google does business.  We are stakeholders in Google.