In this paper we examine an organizational discourse on radical transformation by identifying and analyzing management narratives claiming to be representative of different organizational stakeholders. We do this from the perspective of Stakeholder Agency Theory (Hills and Jones 1996) and by employing analytical approaches typical of hermeneutics, historical analysis and the sociology of action...

Although stakeholder-based evaluation has been fairly well developed in the general program evaluation literature, it remains barely recognized in training evaluation practice. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of multiple stakeholder perceptions about training evaluation in an organizational context. Extending prior empirical work that described differences in stakeholder pe...

Component Based System (CBS) development is integration centric with a focus on selecting components that match stakeholder requirements. Recent research suggests that CBS development needs a quantitative analysis model that evaluates candidate components and facilitates informed decisions during CBS development. To date, there has been little work done on building CBS assessment models that ca...

The sustainability of future bioenergy production rests on more than continual improvements in its environmental, economic, and social impacts. The emergence of new biomass feedstocks, an expanding array of conversion pathways, and expected increases in overall bioenergy production are connecting diverse technical, social, and policy communities. These stakeholder groups have different-and pote...

BACKGROUND Public and stakeholder engagement can improve the quality of both research and policy decision making. However, such engagement poses significant methodological challenges in terms of collecting and analysing input from large, diverse groups. OBJECTIVE To explain how online approaches can facilitate iterative stakeholder engagement, to describe how input from large and diverse stak...

BACKGROUND Stakeholders, as originally defined in theory, are groups or individual who can affect or are affected by an issue. Stakeholders are an important source of information in health research, providing critical perspectives and new insights on the complex determinants of health. The intersection of built and social environments with older adult mobility is an area of research that is fun...

Actor Network Theory (ANT) studies provide detailed accounts of how human and non-human actors gradually form stable actor-networks. Actor Network Theory has been deployed in various environments to achieve a better understanding of the roles of the humans as well as the artifacts that constitute actor networks. This paper examines the use of ANT, enhanced by stakeholder analysis as used in inf...

OBJECTIVE Nutrient Reference Values (NRV) are evidence-based benchmarks for assessing the dietary adequacy of individuals and population groups as well as informing public health nutrition policies and programmes. The present paper presents the findings of an analysis of the views of submitters to a draft document associated with the development of the 2006 NRV for Australia and New Zealand. Th...

This paper attempts to gain a deeper understanding of the firm’s ability to integrate stakeholder insights into the process of organizational innovation from a sustainable development viewpoint. Given the early stage of empirical research on the topic, we used an exploratory case study of two Spanish companies that have successfully learned from stakeholder dialogue and have generated innovatio...

The stakeholder management literature is dominated by the 'shareholder value ' and 'inclusive stakeholder' views of the corporation. Each views the governance problem in terms of inter-functional conflicts between stakeholder groups, such as between investors and managers or managers and employees, and rests on the assumption of an idealized corporate structure characterized by the separation o...