1. What is meant by the terms Stakeholders and Stakeholder Theory? Was the decision intended to favour all, or only some stakeholders and why? (150 words)

4. Outcomes of the decision. Consider the measures of company performance evaluation (400 words) 4.1 Financial measures 4.2 Balance score card 4.3 Triple bottom line Evaluate the outcomes of the decision against these 3 measures. Minimum 2 of the 3 should be used.
Use economic, financial (see the attachment to this document) and other measures (e.g. Balanced Score Card approach, Triple Bottom Line approach) to identify whether or not the decision was successful. You can make use of external sources of information in shaping your opinion on the success of the decision, such as financial analysts’ reports, industry reviews, Australian Stock Exchange reports, financial media articles, found in databases, such as Bloomberg, Reuters and Factiva.
State if the decision was successful or not. If it was unsuccessful, provide an explanation as to why it was not successful. Was it because the wrong decision was taken in the first place, or was it because the implementation failed. Here you need to consider SM theory about mergers and acquisition, which can fail (and often do fail) simply because it is difficult to blend the organisational cultures of the two merged companies.

5. Conclusion & recommendations (200 words)
Based on your analysis make a recommendation about an alternate decision that could have been taken 9if the outcome of the decision was unsuccessful). If the original decision was considered successful, provide a recommendation on the future strategic direction of the company. Make sure that you are using informed judgement when making these conclusions and recommendations. To demonstrate your understanding of the subject concepts you must use the professional language if