Stakeholders often called interest groups are different entities that are in contact with the company and to their work and activities of the company often depends sometimes existentially.

Typical interest groups include:
  • owners (shareholders, ...)
  • investors
  • customers, respectively. buyers,
  • contractors,
  • employees,
  • state administration and local government,
  • various interest groups and organizations (eg. Chamber of Commerce, environmental institutions)
  • often this group also classified general public.