Stakeholder roles in the adoption of circular economy concepts and corresponding impacts on firms have been crucial for academics practitioners. However, substantial research gaps exist relation to specific influence organizational, regulatory community stakeholder groups principles how these affect internal external satisfactions green legitimacy context an emerging economy. Drawing institutio...

We propose that individual differences in the resistance to social change and the acceptance of inequality can have divergent effects on legitimacy depending on the context. This possibility was tested in a sample of 27 European countries (N = 144 367) and across four experiments (total N = 475). Individual differences in the resistance to social change were related to higher levels of perceive...

Despite the multiple stakeholder-centered complexities involved, public–private partnership (PPP) modality is increasingly vehicle of choice for provision public services in developing world. This article asks how PPPs might overcome sustainability challenges a meaningful way while examining which interventions are effective facilitating rather than undermining continuity operations. We draw on...

The field of global health has reached a critical juncture, where both its visibility and the complexity of its challenges are unprecedented. The World Health Organization, as the only global health actor possessing both democratic and formal legal legitimacy, is best positioned to capitalize on this new, precarious situation in public health and respond with the governance innovation that is n...

The empowerment evaluation approach is applied and examined within the context of a case study involving three comprehensive communities’ initiatives. Although considerable literature has been published concerning the efficacy and legitimacy of the empowerment evaluation approach, little documentation exists regarding the empirical application of this approach. In this article we discuss, from ...

Ambitious claims have been made about the development benefits of market-based policy instruments for climate mitigation. We examine the implications of forest carbon projects for different aspects of equity and development. We apply a Stakeholder Multi-criteria Analysis to explore the range of stakeholders, their roles, interests and perspectives, to a case study in Mexico. Two aspects of equi...

From a simple idea to unite pension funds in their quest for responsible investment at its launch in April 2006, the United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have grown in just one decade into an initiative with more than 1,500 fee paying signatories. These signatories consist of asset owners (e.g. pension funds, charities), the asset managers that serve them and ser...

There has been much reflection on the need for a new understanding of global health and the urgency of a paradigm shift to address global health issues. A crucial question is whether this is still possible in current modes of global governance based on capitalist values. Four reflections are provided. (1) Ecological -centered values must become central in any future global health framework. (2)...

Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) is being used in the Sediment and Society project as a tool for communicating impacts, as a tool for documenting differences in interests of stakeholder groups, and as a tool for ranking complex sediment remediation alternatives. Ranking of alternatives in MCA requires impacts to be (i) standardised, and then (ii) weighted against one another. This Technical Brief ...

There is increasing demand for evaluation work funded by public agencies to become more focused on demonstrating effectiveness. Focusing evaluation on outcomes and effectiveness meets the information needs of strategic planners and policy makers, but other stakeholders involved in managing, delivering or using public services and programmes may use other assessment criteria, such as improving t...