01737nas a2200181   4500008004100000245012300041210006900164260000900233300001000242490000600252520105300258653001501311653003201326100002001358700001801378700001801396856014101414       2012                        eng d00aBalancing Natural Environmental Concerns of the Internal and External Stakeholders in Family and Non-family Businesses0 aBalancing Natural Environmental Concerns of the Internal and Ext  c2012  a28-370 v33 aWhile researches have long suggested that firms must be attentive to their key stakeholders, the question of how attention to different stakeholders may have different benefits for different firms has not been well addressed. This is especially true in the case of family businesses, which confront a unique set of stakeholder challenges, and socioemotional goals not confronted by non-family firms. In this study, we investigate the effect of these competing demands across these different types of firms. We argue that while being attentive to both internal and external stakeholders is important to firm performance in family and non-family firms, family firms can benefit more when they match their concern for natural environmental stakeholders with a demonstration of concern for their employees. By effectively leveraging the power of these critical internal stakeholders, family firms can gain competitive advantages over non-family firms as it is through these internal stakeholders which the demands of external stakeholder are often met.10aManagement10aStrategy & Entrepreneurship1 aNeubaum, Donald1 aDibrell, Clay1 aCraig, Justin  uhttps://dev.business.oregonstate.edu/biblio/balancing-natural-environmental-concerns-internal-and-external-stakeholders-family-and-non-0