BACKGROUND Integrating theory when developing complex quality improvement interventions can help to explain clinical and organizational behavior, inform strategy selection, and understand effects. This paper describes a theory-informed interactive dissemination strategy. Using aggregated quality improvement data, the strategy seeks to engage stakeholders in wide-scale data interpretation and kn...

This commentary complements the Hunt (2015) essay and identifies the challenges that the R-A theory poses with its emphasis on superior financial performance as a firm’s primary and superordinate objective. It points to the need for new marketing strategy theory with a broader perspective of including other stakeholders beyond investors while designing firm objectives. In addition, the commenta...

The Value-Based Theory of Systems Engineering brings together many interdisciplinary theoretical lenses into a state of synchrony and allows reasoning about systems in different dimensions, and at various levels of abstraction. The theory's primary strength is in its ability to identify and work through the dependencies of most socio-political-technical systems and explain success in such conte...

The paper describes the terminology of risk communication in the view of food safety: the theory of stakeholders, the citizens' involvement and the community interest and consultation are reported. Different aspects of risk communication (public communication, scientific uncertainty, trust, care, consensus and crisis communication) are discussed.

Grounded in stakeholder theory and a resource-based view of the firm, this conceptual paper explores the impact on corporate reputation of the evolution of corporate social actions over time. Information asymmetries between stakeholders, the stickiness of reputation and other temporal considerations provide the foundation for the proposed conceptual model of the relationship between corporate s...