Guanxi (literally interpersonal connections) is in essence a network of resource coalition-based stakeholders sharing resources for survival, and it plays a key role in achieving business success in China. However, the salience of guanxi stakeholders varies: not all guanxi relationships are necessary, and among the necessary guanxi participants, not all are equally important. A hierarchical sta...

1 INTRODUCTION During the past three decades, the concept of " stakeholders " has been deeply embedded in the thinking and practice of management scholars (Freeman, 1984) as well as the architects for large-scale engineering systems (Moses, 2004), in order to ensure an organization's " long-term success ". However, most current stakeholder models only examine the direct relationships between th...

Reliance on IT has complicated risk management efforts by introducing IT risk, defined as the risk that an organization’s information systems will not adequately support achieving business objectives, sufficiently safeguard information resources, or deliver accurate and complete information to users. There are multiple stakeholders involved in the effort to manage IT risk, however it is not cle...

As e-government plays an increasingly dominant role in modern public administrative management, its pervasive influence on organizations and individuals is apparent. It is, therefore, timely and relevant to examine e-governance—the fundamental mission of e-government. By adopting a stakeholder perspective, this study approaches the topic of e-governance in e-government from the three critical a...

Participatory approaches to development in general and natural resource management in particular are now a widely accepted management strategy. Multi-agent system (MAS), a computer-based tool, offers a promising approach for multistakeholder management systems such as the case involving community-managed resources. MAS provides a framework where stakeholders’ (or agents) individual actions, beh...

Stakeholders are individuals, groups, or organizations that are affected by or can affect a particular action undertaken by others. Biobanks relate to a number of donors, researchers, research institutions, regulatory bodies, funders, and others. These stakeholders can potentially have a strong influence upon the organization and operation of a biobank. A sound strategy for stakeholder engageme...

This paper proposes a risk based approach in order to obtain a quantitative estimate of the salience of the stakeholders involved in a project. The integration between stakeholders and risk management processes in the Project Management System allows us to realize a twofold objective: a quantitative estimate of the salience of each stakeholder in terms of the contribution to the overall project...

Während Stakeholder-Management als Teilaufgabe in allgemeinen Prozessmodellen des Projektmanagements fest verankert ist, besteht bei IT-Projekten die Gefahr, dass durch einen nutzerzentrierten Ansatz die Bedeutung von Stakeholdern unterschätzt wird. Durch die besondere Organisationsform von Hochschulen im Spannungsfeld von akademischer Selbstverwaltung, öffentlichem Dienstrecht und studentische...

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...