In the organizational body and project, it has participated in the decision making, or execution of the activity (or non- execution) it is the individual or the corporate body group which receives influence. In case of general enterprise if is, the shareholder investor, the obligee financial institution, employee Union, the job seeker, the customer consumer and the affiliated enterprise transaction enterprise, competitive enterprise & economic organization, the administrative supervision and the local resident etc. are the stake holder.

Originally "stakeholder" in English, is the third party who keeps the latch of gamble. This word if in the sixties the Stanford Research Institute, "for the manager, the shareholder (stockholder) with" has demand in the same way, was used in the sense, existence where is instantaneously a some coping necessary "". You say that the shareholder, the employee, the customer and the supplyer vendor, the financial institution, it pointed to society concretely. After that, it reached the point where from the fact that you use (H.Igor Ansoff) and others while discussing the strategic plan process and the like of strategic management, as the language which shows the authorized personnel who is in each class of enterprise it is used in the territory of fields of business administration and furthermore public policy etc..

The stake holder of narrow sense is the person who possesses money interests in continuous profit activity of organization, but recentlyreceivingappearanceenlargementdeepening of the concepts such as , CSR, IR, risk management and environmental management, that organization daily directly there is no interest, the journalist news media, the security analyst economist, the rating agency, the environmental group, the object is spreading to NPO/NGO and the specialist institution etc.. In addition, with context of terrestrial protection of the environment there is also the direction which proposes the point of view such as "mankind" the "next generation".

The flow of stake holder conceptual enlargement is received, at enterprise of part various influences and the risk which the respective company activity causes are explained to the stake holder, "stake holder meeting" and "stake holder dialogue" are opened as the expedient which reflects the opinion.

In field of project management, the stake holder which relates to project (the project stake holder) identifying clearly, appropriately management it makes each one important that it does. The project sponsor (the project owner and the order person), the project manager (the project management team), the project team (actual worker and the outside order trader), PMO, the user (the end user and the customer) etc.is listed as the stake holder in project.

Inthe ISO 9000series andthe ISO 14000 series and the like, the interest person (interested party) is used as an almost synonymous word.