This chapter assesses the nexus between civil service and political space in relation to policy development processes practices for stakeholder engagement, digitalisation user-centric development. It concludes with areas of opportunity clarify role improve legitimacy process.

Stakeholder engagement is a central tenet for understanding and solving sustainability challenges. Given the existing stakeholder knowledge base fact that practitioners mostly focus on of high-power salience stakeholders, interests low-power vulnerable stakeholders are often manipulated. Therefore, this research devoted to stakeholders. Grounded in theory results two illustrations, we demonstra...

The May 2015 release of the report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing highlighted a fundamental change in the issues dominating discussions about policing in America. That change has moved discussions away from a focus on what is legal or effective in crime control and toward a concern for how the actions of the police influence public trust and confidence in the police. Thi...

Stakeholder theory offers a strong starting point for this analysis. Work following Freeman’s first conceptualization (Freeman, 1984) has focused on the definition and prioritization of actors related to the firm in a variety of contexts. Mitchell (1997) offered a chronology of stakeholder definitions, ranging from actors necessary for the survival of the firm, to actors in the environment whic...

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) hybridizing toward the market domain by adopting business practices has sparked an ever-growing debate. There is research showing a rather positive effect on organizational legitimacy. However, considering literature discussing other performance dimensions (e.g., social effectiveness), this trend argued to erode prosocial underpinnings of NPOs, increasingly leavin...

This paper presents the results of two national-level studies of REDD+ governance values in Nepal and Papua New Guinea (PNG), using a hierarchical framework of principles, criteria, and indicators (PC&I), with evaluation at the indicator level. The research was conducted by means of an online survey to determine general perspectives on the governance quality of REDD+, as well as stakeholder wor...

Accountable decision-makers are required to legitimize their priority setting decisions in health to members of society. In this perspective we stress the point that fair, legitimate processes should reflect efforts of authorities to treat all stakeholders as moral equals in terms of providing all people with well-justified, reasonable reasons to endorse the decisions. ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a number of firm and industry characteristics, as well as media exposure, are potential determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practices by Spanish listed firms. Empirical studies have shown that CSR disclosure activism varies across companies, industries, and time (Gray et al., Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 8...