Research methodology is the procedural framework within which the research is conducted. This includes the overall approach to a problem that could be put into practice in a research process, from the theoretical underpinning to the collection and analysis of data. Choice of methodology depends on the primary drivers: topic to be researched and the specific research questions. Hence, methodolog...

Responses to climate change have shifted significantly towards renewable energy, even while progress remains slower than predicted. Improving advances here requires joint efforts by private, public and social sector organizations. Yet, many of these collaborations fail or fall short their potential. This in-depth case study the electric vehicle infrastructure provider Better Place finds that cr...

Adaptive collaborative management emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a crucial component of resilient social-ecological systems. Collaboration among diverse stakeholders is expected to enhance learning, build social legitimacy for decision making, and establish relationships that support learning and adaptation in the long term. However, simply bringing together diverse stakeholders does not ...

BACKGROUND Biomedical research is increasingly globalized with ever more research conducted in low and middle-income countries. This trend raises a host of ethical concerns and critiques. While community engagement (CE) has been proposed as an ethically important practice for global biomedical research, there is no agreement about what these practices contribute to the ethics of research, or wh...

Partnerships and co-operative environmental management are increasing worldwide as is the call for scientific input in the public process of ecosystem management. In Hawaii, private landowners, non-governmental organizations, and state and federal agencies have formed watershed partnerships to conserve and better manage upland forested watersheds. In this paper, findings of an international wor...

Integrated Reporting (IR), as a novel sustainability-oriented organizational reporting approach, is expected to produce better corporate for stakeholders and promote greater transparency accountability in the capital market. This paper offers theoretical framework that integrates five mainstream IR theories: stakeholder theory, agency signalling legitimacy institutional theory. Based on framewo...

This outline traces the development of a conceptual model of the social license to operate. The development process was a conversation between theory and practice over a number of years. An original study of the levels of acceptance of a local mine across a 15 year period led to the conceptualization of the social license presented in the Thomson and Boutilier (2011) chapter. That was followed ...

Stakeholder engagement has grown into a widely used yet often unclear construct in business and society research. The literature lacks unified understanding of the essentials stakeholder engagement, fragmented use challenges its development legitimacy. purpose this article is to clarify unfold full potential We conduct review on 90 articles leading academic journals focusing society, management...