Q: I've recently seen a few families struggle with a parent's military deployment. Are there any recommended approaches? A: Military service places significant strains on a family. There are multiple family stress phases recognized around a deployment: prede-ployment, deployment, sustainment, late deployment, and then postdeploy-ment. 1 Communication restrictions and role transitions for servic...

BACKGROUND Collaborative research networks are often touted as a solution for enhancing the translation of knowledge, but questions remain about how to evaluate their impact on health service delivery. This pragmatic scoping study explored the enabling factors for developing and supporting a collaborative imaging network in a metropolitan university in Australia. METHODS An advisory group was...

With reference to the discussion about shareholder versus stakeholder maximization it is argued that the normal type of maximization is in fact stakeholder-owner maximization. This means maximization of the sum of the value of the shares and stakeholder benefits belonging to the dominating stakeholder-owner. Maximization of shareholder value is a special case of owner-maximization, and only und...

forest management as one of the important source of production is crucial and critical. in taking over the forest resources as one of the most important of natural resources in the world, it is essential to consider local stakeholders to implement forest action plan for forest co-management. therefore, this study aims at achieving to proper management of forests based on evaluating the stakehol...

urmia lake and its surroundng wetlands have been severely affected by recent droughts (1998–2003) and a considerable decrease in inflow has affected lake ecosystem components. integrated ecosystem-based management is a useful managing tool for the wise use and biodiversity conservation of wetlands. in the process of developing an integrated ecosystem-based management model for urmia lake, the i...

Using a quantitative study, this article considers the reciprocal relationship between stakeholder, city brand meaning co-creation and stakeholder identity. This study is pioneering in that it firmly establishes the existence of an interactive brand due to the reciprocal relationship for two of three sets of stakeholders. Three stakeholder groups in Hatfield, UK provide the context for the stud...

As a company competitiveness depends more and more on the relationship with its stakeholders, the topic of companystakeholder fit is becoming increasingly important. This fit affects the extent to which a stakeholder perceives CSR company commitment, values and behaviors and, therefore, stakeholder identification in a company and his/her loyalty to it. Consequently, it is important to measure t...

Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 2 BBRI Stakeholder Engagement Steps .......................................................................... 3 Building a Digitally Inclusive Community. How to Begin? ............................................... 3 Broadband Public Policy Engagement in Rhode ...

The purpose of stakeholder management is to facilitate our understanding of increasingly unpredictable external environments, thereby facilitating our ability to manage within these environments. We argue that a powerful implicit assumption within the stakeholder literature—that priorities within rolebased stakeholder groups are relatively homogeneous—blurs our understanding of organization-sta...

Successful implementation of e-learning is dependent on the extent to which the needs and concerns of the stakeholder groups involved are addressed. This paper discusses e-learning, describes the needs and concerns of the various stakeholder groups, and derives a Stakeholders' Responsiblity Matrix to summarize the responsibilities of each stakeholder group. Fulfilling the responsibilities descr...