This qualitative case study applied the lens of the negotiation of power and interests to the planning process for an online degree program. The major findings of the study were: 1) stakeholders bring to the planning process conflicting perspectives of what constitutes an effective planning process, and 2) the actual planning process followed is negotiated among the stakeholders negotiate the p...

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 ...

How to carry out the stakeholders managements effectively, one major issue is to continuously meet the demands of the stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the disorganized information of stakeholders demands and correctly deal with it. The paper has expounded on the project stakeholders' demands information, such as fuzziness, randomness, dynamics, diversity and contradictorine...

A Bayesian belief network (BN) for farming contracts has been constructed and validated with direct co-operation and in dialogue with stakeholders. On the one hand, BN’s can create space for an open dialogue with stakeholders due to the flexibility of the decision support tool. This allows factors (nodes), associations (directed links) and probabilities to be adjusted and validated throughout t...

Many operations researchers know about the use of decision analysis to help decide among alternative investments (such as pharmacological research and development investments) using decision trees with chance nodes to compute expected monetary value or return on investment of different alternatives. Such an analysis often aims to maximize a single evaluation measure for a single decision maker....

Accessibility is becoming more and more relevant in Information technologies, such as the Web and software applications, particularly due to the push on legislation to make public services accessible to everyone. While most accessibility issues are envisioned by the developer-user dichotomy, several stakeholders are responsible for the successful implementation of accessible software and servic...

BACKGROUND Concern about the inevitable depletion of global energy resources is rising and many countries are shifting their focus to renewable energy. Biodiesel is one promising energy source that has garnered much public attention in recent years. Many believe that this alternative source of energy will be able to sustain the need for increased energy security while at the same time being fri...

Implementing an effective inter-organizational system (IOS) requires significant organizational as well as technical changes. These will affect stakeholders with varying degrees of power and with varying degrees of interest in the system – yet promoters depend on them if the project is to succeed. Identifying stakeholders and understanding their attitudes enables promoters to manage implementat...

Privacy is a relational and relative concept that has been defined in a variety of ways. In this paper we offer a systematic discussion of potentially different notions of privacy. We conclude that privacy as the freedom or immunity from the judgement of others is an extremely useful concept to develop ways in which to understand privacy claims and associated risks. To this end, we develop a fr...