Increasingly, innovative collaborative partnerships are adopted in setting that distributed organizations, groups, and individuals work together toward solving problems or projects that are too big or complex for single investigators. We look at how the growth process, a largely overlooked aspect of collaboration affects stakeholders’ expectation of each other’s contribution to a civic program ...

A participatory environmental management plan was prepared for Tuzla Lake, Turkey. Fuzzy cognitive mapping approach was used to obtain stakeholder views and desires. Cognitive maps were prepared with 44 stakeholders (villagers, local decisionmakers, government and non-government organization (NGO) officials). Graph theory indices, statistical methods and "What-if" simulations were used in the a...

Enterprise Systems (ES) are comprehensive yet complex systems to implement, involving numerous stakeholders, each with specific domain knowledge, which are crucial to the success of the ES project. It would therefore be prudent for greater attention to be given to the study of knowledge sharing during ES implementations. This is a conceptual paper, which begins with an overview of why stakehold...

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies are large, comprehensive solutions that are complex to adopt and manage. The EAI adoption process involves several stakeholders, each with specific domain knowledge and expertise that are crucial to the success of EAI projects. It would therefore be prudent to give greater attention to the research on investigating the role of several stakeh...

This bachelor thesis describes the product development of Cluster 2.0, a website developed to test a new theory regarding innovation. Cluster 2.0 combines the gathering of information about stakeholders in the satellite navigation industry, with a social network. The different stages of the development process will be explored, and most importantly the theory and background information that led...

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...

The principal objective in this paper is to examine in some depth the relationships between ownership structure, business growth and financial performance amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with different degrees of overlap between management and ownership. The research employs panel data for 1,872 SMEs legally organised as proprietary companies, taken from the Australian federal...

Thes article proves that the actual direction of effective enterprise management is use network concept production and commercial activities, which based on theory stakeholders. This area research widely discussed in foreign economic publications, where a significant number innovative developments proposals have already accumulated. Research, generalization experience field stakeholder are extr...

Examination malpractice is any act carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. This article employs three classical major sociological perspectives in analyzing examination malpractice in Nigerian Universities. The structural-fu...