the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of cross-cultural communication (ccc) on stakeholder management process (smp) in international construction projects from the turkish stakeholders’ perspective. the research is based on a survey of turkish stakeholders (contractors, consulting engineers, insurance brokers, and financial advisors) operating internationally. the useable su...

background and purpose: the office of educational services at universities is a very important division and it is necessary for employees to strive towards providing suitable services to students. the quality of educational services has always been a major concern for higher education managers. interviewing stakeholders and experts increases our understanding of different aspects of the subject...

A more sophisticated understanding of the unpredictable, disorderly and unstable aspects of healthcare organisations is developing in the knowledge translation (KT) literature. In an article published in this journal, Kitson et al introduced a new model for KT in healthcare based on complexity theory. The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network Model (KTCNM) provides a fresh perspective by mak...

Graduate students considering constructivist grounded theory as a qualitative methodological approach may benefit from recognizing the many challenges they could face when embarking in thesis work. These challenges include great diversity in approaches to grounded theory, lack of congruity in how grounded theory methodology is described and understood within the literature, and a dearth of expe...

Integrated Reporting (IR), as a novel sustainability-oriented organizational reporting approach, is expected to produce better corporate for stakeholders and promote greater transparency accountability in the capital market. This paper offers theoretical framework that integrates five mainstream IR theories: stakeholder theory, agency signalling legitimacy institutional theory. Based on framewo...

The notion of the "stakeholders" of the firm has drawn ever-increasing attention since Freeman published his seminal book on Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach in 1984. In the understanding of most scholars in the field, stakeholder theory is not a special theory on a firm's constituencies but sets out to replace today's prevailing neoclassical economic concept of the firm. As such, i...