The stakeholder view of the firm has contributed to re-define the relationship between the firm and its stakeholders. Stakeholder theory can be grounded on instrumental or normative arguments. While many recent theoretical and empirical works in the stakeholder management literature have used the generic instrumental/normative distinction, the nature of stakeholders “stake” itself has received ...

This paper presents a qualitative study on top management support of IT implementation in a hospital’s cloud computing IT project. Drawing upon stakeholder theory, top management support over the implementation was found to be dynamic, depending on eight higher order factors such as IT productivity paradox, perceived IT importance, flexible IT personnel, trust, project-enabled intangibles, assi...

Sustainable development has brought with it a broader consideration of the role of different stakeholders. Considerable scholarship has gone into demonstrating that purpose and perspective matter, and that stakeholder groupings based on these can be much more complex than basic social or economic variables might suggest. Yet an examination of the stakeholder analysis tools in the management lit...

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...

A Framework for Stakeholder Management in Construction Projects 1 2 Rebecca J. Yang 3 Geoffrey Q.P. Shen 4 5 Abstract: This paper presents a systematic and generic framework reference for the 6 practice of stakeholder management in the construction industry. It contains findings 7 from empirical studies, comprising six interviews, a pilot study, a questionnaire 8 survey in Hong Kong and fifteen...

The increasing use of stakeholder analysis in natural resource management reflects a growing recognition that stakeholders can and should influence environmental decision making. Stakeholder analysis can be used to avoid inflaming conflicts, ensure that the marginalization of certain groups is not reinforced, and fairly represent diverse interests. We present a case study from the Peak District...

In recent years, climate impact assessments of relevance to the agricultural and forestry sectors have received considerable attention. Current ecosystem models commonly capture the effect of a warmer climate on biomass production, but they rarely sufficiently capture potential losses caused by pests, pathogens and extreme weather events. In addition, alternative management regimes may not be i...

This paper explores the socio-ecological effects of increased aquaculture/farmed fish production, around the island group of Frøya in Trøndelag, Norway, as a result of new licenses accorded to the industry. This is investigated from a stakeholder perspective by assessing the adaptive capacity of selected stakeholder groups through workshops combining Scenario Analysis, Systems Thinking and Baye...