Background This study reports stakeholders’ ratings, and perceived gaps in World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 8 implementation in Thailand viewed against WHO’s Guidelines for Article 8 and to inform action in preparing the 2017 Tobacco Product Control Act.   Methods Stakeholder ratings of Guideline provisions of Article 8 on a three-tiered s...

Effective occupational health care at the workplace requires collaboration, partnerships and alliances with internal, interface and external stakeholders. Essential steps for solid work with various stakeholders are identification of key stakeholders, systematic analysis of their views and positions, and development of stakeholder participation and involvement. Stakeholder analysis aims to eval...

In this study, we assess the causal impact of stakeholder orientation on innovation. To obtain exogenous variation in stakeholder orientation, we exploit the enactment of state-level constituency statutes, which allow directors to consider stakeholders’ interests when making business decisions. Using a difference-indifferences methodology, we find that the enactment of constituency statutes lea...

This paper describes how Honduras’ national dengue control programme was innovated by an action research project carried out in El Progreso (1990-1996). One intriguing vector control measure discovered by this project was a locally acceptable method for cleaning large cement washbasins and metal drums, known as “the Untadita” or “little dab”. A large-scale social mobilization and communication ...

Nonprofit organizations suffer from agency problems that are similar to or perhaps even more severe than those observed at for-profit companies. As a result, one might expect the executive pay setting process in the two sectors to reflect similar deficiencies. This Article explains why the managerial power theory that was developed to help explain for-profit executive pay is plausibly applicabl...

BACKGROUND The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (BCERCs) include collaborators from basic sciences, epidemiology, and the community, conducting studies to investigate whether environmental exposures are associated with the timing of puberty. A pilot study of a subset of the study participants assessed the feasibility of measuring selected biomarkers of exposure in blood and ur...

Only 40-50% of households in the United States are currently disaster prepared. In this intervention study, respondent-driven sampling was used to select a sample (n = 187) of low income, Latino residents of Los Angeles County, randomly assigned into two treatment conditions: (i) household preparedness education received through 'promotora' (community health worker) led small group meetings, an...

A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or community that has an interest or stake in a consensus-building process. The goal of stakeholder identification is identifying stakeholder mentions in natural language text. We present novel work in using a bootstrapping approach for the identification of stakeholders in public comment corpora. We refine the definition of a stakeholder by ...

The article argues for the use of a narrow stakeholder definition. It also adds one group –managers – that generally is not considered as being a stakeholder group. Here it is suggested that control of this stakeholder group holding the executive power should be a central topic for stakeholder theory. The article supports the common idea that the business discourse and the moral discourse shoul...