II I assure the single handed composition of this master's thesis only supported by declared resources. Abstract Today's enterprises are faced with an increasing rate of change in the economic environment. Underlying factors are the increased customization of products and services coupled with globalization and a more competitive market situation. Enterprises have to continuously adapt to these...

Although stakeholder-based evaluation has been fairly well developed in the general program evaluation literature, it remains barely recognized in training evaluation practice. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of multiple stakeholder perceptions about training evaluation in an organizational context. Extending prior empirical work that described differences in stakeholder pe...

Methods Two rounds of Delphi questionnaires were completed by patients and health professionals during the development of three surgical core sets. Participants rated items 1 (not essential) to 9 (absolutely essential). For round 2, participants were randomized to receive feedback from their stakeholder group only (single) or both stakeholder groups separately (dual). Items to retain following ...

The elderly population in China is increasing rapidly. To meet elderly residents’ housing demand, Chinese government makes great efforts to build more elderly facilities. However, major challenges in the operation of these elderly facilities, such as low space utilization rate, poor accessibility, poor environment and so on, have being emerging. The critical reason for challenges can be conclud...

Today, more and digital services get designed to address multi-stakeholder challenges easing transactions communication along supply chains. Here, it is essential that the underlying satisfy all relevant stakeholders sufficiently. Especially, onboarding as a problem - service fit by itself does not guarantee support adoption of stakeholders. Given stakeholders’ unique roles responsibilities the...

Citation: Lembo G, Bellido JM, Bitetto I, Facchini MT, García-Jiménez T, Stithou M, Vassilopoulou VC and Spedicato MT (2017) Preference Modeling to Support Stakeholder Outreach toward the Common Fishery Policy Objectives in the North Mediterranean Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:328. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00328 Preference Modeling to Support Stakeholder Outreach toward the Common Fishery Policy Objec...

Lebensmittelskandale haben in der Agrarund Ernährungsindustrie zu Rückverfolgbarkeitslösungen unterschiedlichster Ausprägung geführt. Empirische Aussagen über die Relevanz einzelner Kostenbzw. Nutzenaspekte der Stakeholder von IT-basierten Qualitätssicherungsund Rückverfolgbarkeitssystemen liegen derzeit nicht vor. Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens ist daher die Identifizierung und Quantifizierung d...

BACKGROUND To achieve a sustained improvement in health outcomes, the way health interventions are designed and implemented is critical. A participatory action research approach is applauded for building local capacity such as health management. Thereby increasing the chances of sustaining health interventions. OBJECTIVE This study explored stakeholder experiences of using PAR to implement an...

Stakeholders often control vital resources for decision makers, and this can lead decision makers to take stakeholder opinions into account when making important decisions. This process can be complicated by a number of factors. First, many important decisions involve risk and uncertainty. When the outcome is uncertain, how does a decision maker take the views of stakeholders into account? Seco...