You have just learned that your company’s board of directors is considering a change in the company’s strategic direction that would result in a partial shutdown of the company’s local manufacturing facility. The company would open a new manufacturing facility in a neighboring state. While the company would likely allow some of the most highly skilled employees to transfer to the new facility, you expect few, if any, of the employees would make such a move.

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Assume that you have been asked by your company’s president to assist him in performing a stakeholder analysis. Who are the primary stakeholders in these circumstances?