The stakeholder theory has been in the management agenda for about thirty years and reservations about its acceptance as a comprehensive theory still remains. It was introduced as a managerial issue by the Labour Party in 1997 aiming to make public management more inclusive. This article aims to contribute to the stakeholder theory adding descriptive issues to its theoretical basis. The finding...

A systematic analysis of stakeholders could enrich the systems thinking and modelling methodology. Among the five phases of the systems thinking and modelling framework, namely, problem structuring, causal loop modelling, dynamic modelling, scenario planning & modelling, and implementation & organisational learning, the importance of stakeholder analysis in the problem structuring and scenario ...

This paper presents an evaluation framework within a lifecycle and stakeholder-oriented approach to support development of a virtual enterprise. With the purpose of providing a conceptual understanding of the lifecycle based approach and proving the concept, a case study is carried out within DIECoM, an IST project funded under the EC’s Framework V programme. Consequently, there is a set of heu...

Governments and businesses are becoming ever more interested in the production and capitalisation of knowledge, so much so that the ‘knowledge economy’ is now regarded as the paradigm of economic progress. This has significant implications for teaching and research generally, and for the IS community in particular. This paper provides a brief analysis of general developments in higher education...

Use of information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare has increased substantially over the past decades. Implementation of ICT in municipal health services (eHealth) involves a variety of stakeholders, and may lead to changes in the roles of providers and patients. Coordination, communication, early identification and involvement of key stakeholders in eHealth projects have been h...

This research aims at designing policies for a sustainable coastal zone development due to stakeholder preferences in Subang Regency. Thus, mapping of every stakeholder’s importance and influence is a specific goal to describe. All methods in this research were taken from stakeholders analysis, which follow these steps: identification of stakeholder, making stakeholders Table, analysis of impor...

This paper explores the socio-ecological effects of increased aquaculture/farmed fish production, around the island group of Frøya in Trøndelag, Norway, as a result of new licenses accorded to the industry. This is investigated from a stakeholder perspective by assessing the adaptive capacity of selected stakeholder groups through workshops combining Scenario Analysis, Systems Thinking and Baye...

Most defined contribution (DC) pension schemes give their members a degree of choice over the investment strategy to be followed with their contributions. Many schemes also offer a ‘default’ fund for members who are unable or unwilling to choose their own investment strategy. Previous research shows that where a default fund exists, the majority of members adopt it as the path of least resistan...

So far little effort has been put into researching the importance of internal ERP project stakeholders’ mutual interactions, realizing the project’s complexity, influence on the whole organization, and high risk for a useful final outcome. This research analyzes the stakeholders’ interactions and positions in the project network, their criticality, potential bottlenecks and conflicts. The main ...

1 INTRODUCTION During the past three decades, the concept of " stakeholders " has been deeply embedded in the thinking and practice of management scholars (Freeman, 1984) as well as the architects for large-scale engineering systems (Moses, 2004), in order to ensure an organization's " long-term success ". However, most current stakeholder models only examine the direct relationships between th...