are stakeholders and shareholders the same 
although shareholders are an important type of stakeholder they are not the only stakeholders other stakeholders include employees customers suppliers governments and the public at large in recent years there has been a trend toward thinking more broadly about who constitutes the stakeholders of a business the bottom linestakeholders are individuals organizations or other entities that have a vested interest in the success or failure of a company or an endeavor stakeholders can be internal or external and range from customers and shareholders to communities and even governments 