To reach the global aspiration of 17 ambitious SDGs, local realities must be integrated. Often, models are developed based on quantitative statistical data sources from databases environmental indicators or economics to assess how a given SDG can achieved. This process however removes equation. How you best include stakeholders in this mathematical modelling processes distanced their realities,...

Coordinating multiagent systems to maximize global information collection both presents scientific challenges and provides application opportunities, such as planetary exploration, and search and rescue. In particular, in many domains where communication is expensive because of limited power or computation, the coordination must be achieved in a passive manner, without agents explicitly informi...

This paper explores some critical aspects of leadership in the context of multisectoral partnerships. It focuses on leadership in practice and asks the question “How do managers experience and perceive leadership in such partnerships?” The study contributes to the debate on whether leadership in a multi-sectoral partnership context differs from that within a single organisation. It is based on ...

Purpose This study investigates how cruise corporations, which have shown consistent and high growth rates in recent years, address the Sustainable Development Goal 17 (SDG17) “Partnership for Goals” to meet UN 2030 Agenda. aims fill existent gap literature, as also highlighted by practitioners First Research Conference on Tourism, through lens of stakeholder theory. Design/methodology/approach...

Background: Patient-engagement strategies are increasingly recognized for enriching traditional medical care and improving population health. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be well positioned to leverage multi-sector organizational partnerships to improve the reach of their patient-engagement strategies, particularly given incentives to meet cost, quality and population health goals....

countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. this makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. there is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...