<P> Any action taken by any organization or any group might affect those people who are linked with them in the private sector . For examples these are parents, children, customers, owners, employees, associates, partners, contractors, and suppliers, people that are related or located nearby . </P> <P> Primary Stakeholders--usually internal stakeholders, are those that engage in economic transactions with the business (for example stockholders, customers, suppliers, creditors, and employees). </P> <P> Secondary Stakeholders--usually external stakeholders, are those who--although they do not engage in direct economic exchange with the business--are affected by or can affect its actions (for example the general public, communities, activist groups, business support groups, and the media). </P> <P> Excluded Stakeholders--those such as children or the disinterested public, originally as they had no economic impact on business . Now as the concept takes an anthropocentric perspective, while some groups like the general public may be recognized as stakeholders others remain excluded . Such a perspective does not give plants, animals or even geology a voice as stakeholders, but only an instrumental value in relation to human groups or individuals . </P>

A union and the general public are examples of internal stakeholders