Stakeholder Capital Governance · Capital Ecosystem · Series 2
Value Distribution When Stakeholder Power and Strategic Contribution Diverge
Joint improvement projects often produce two facts at once. One party holds stronger bargaining power, exit threats, or veto rights over rules. The other has delivered more of the realized technical, cost-reducing, or coordinative contribution. When the ranking by power diverges from the ranking supported by contribution evidence, incremental surplus is easily allocated by power rather than by contribution. Stakeholder research has already compared power and strategic importance as predictors of value distribution and has found that strategic importance can outweigh power.[1] Supply-chain experiments show that fairness concerns block full extraction by the powerful party.[2] What remains unspecified is whether, once mismatch is present, verifiable contribution records and independent review can change allocation choices.