Studying the Impact of Stakeholder Management on Dividends and Firm Value

Business environment at now provides basis for application and integration stakeholder theory with agency theory in managerial and financial strategies. In this regard, balance creation between the interests of all stakeholders is important. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of stakeholder management on dividends and firm value in consistent with the analysis of agency theory and stakeholder theory. To determine stakeholder management, cash flows paid to each of the stakeholders are used as the basis. For this purpose, a sample of 220 companies listed in the TSE is selected from 2010 to the 2015. Data has been examined using regression analysis. Research evidence shows a significant positive relationship between stakeholder management and dividends, also negative relationship between stakeholders management and market value of the firm. These results suggest that stakeholder management is also done in the interests of shareholders.