Prioritize investor access requests using power, legitimacy, and urgency rather than volume alone.
Access should follow salience, not noise. The stakeholder salience model evaluates stakeholders by power, legitimacy, and urgency. For investor relations, those three lenses are more useful than a simple loud-to-quiet queue. Power asks whether the investor can materially affect ownership, vote, perception, or market narrative. Legitimacy asks whether the claim is appropriate for the relationship and disclosure context. Urgency asks whether timing matters now. The mechanism is resource allocation under reputational risk. Executive access is scarce and signals importance. Giving it to the loudest request can starve a strategically important holder, reward pressure tactics, or create inconsistent treatment. Ignoring urgency…
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