Abstract. In Romania, local stakeholders' knowledge plays a role in making decisions for emergencies, supporting rescue officers natural hazard events, coordinating, and assisting the affected populations physically psychologically. However, despite increasing occurrence severity of hazards Ia?i metropolitan area (of north-eastern Romania), there is lack stakeholders on how to encourage populat...

The stakeholder theory has been in the management agenda for about thirty years and reservations about its acceptance as a comprehensive theory still remains. It was introduced as a managerial issue by the Labour Party in 1997 aiming to make public management more inclusive. This article aims to contribute to the stakeholder theory adding descriptive issues to its theoretical basis. The finding...

Analysing and dealing with the needs and demands of stakeholders is a major concern of modern business. This paper attempts to frame, systematise and conceptualise a number of the underlying issues related to the phenomenon. As a result, a vast array of unaddressed and unanswered questions emerges. What unites these is the implicit acceptance of an emerging (contemporary) stakeholder theory of ...

Currently, business model theory does not describe how the phenomenon of value co-creation is affected by interactions that span organisational levels in the network. Such interactions include the sharing of customer data and logistical information in addition to exchanges of products and services for cash payment. This paper seeks to develop business model theory to include the business models...

OBJECTIVE To understand core curriculum design and involvement of stakeholders. METHODS Twelve homogeneous focus group interviews with a total of 88 students, house officers, senior doctors and nurses concerning an undergraduate emergency medicine curriculum. Following content coding of transcripts, we analysed by condensation, categorisation and qualitative content analyses. RESULTS The fo...

The paper describes a method for design of marine structures with increased safety for environment, considering also the required investment costs as well as the aspects of risk distribution onto the maritime stakeholders. Practically, the paper seeks to answer what is the optimal amount that should be invested into certain safety measure for any given vessel. Due to the uneven distribution of ...

Background The importance of evaluating policy processes to achieve health equity is well recognised but such evaluation encounters methodological, theoretical and political challenges. This paper describes how a program theorybased evaluation framework can be developed and tested, using the example of an evaluation of the South Australian Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative.   Methods A f...