stakeholder management Articles
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Linking stakeholders and corporate reputation towards corporate sustainability
The purpose of this paper is to understand the interdependence of corporate reputation within the sphere of stakeholder management with the goal of achieving corporate sustainability. The paper investigates literatures in corporate sustainability, stakeholder management, social marketing, corporate communication, and reputation management in order to build a new framework. This study suggests ...
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Ethics and performance management
The relationship between values, ethics and stakeholders in a performance context is explored. Organisations must have a focused purpose of pursuing goals through the ethical concepts of value. The foundations and importance of core values to every business are discussed in relation to modes of behaviour and decision-making practices. They are demonstrated as under-pinning the strategic ...
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Fortescue Metals Group Ltd - becoming the lowest cost leader through managing key stakeholders
This article considers how Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) had strategically positioned itself in the global iron ore industry through building a lowest cost leadership strategy as well as targeting the Chinese market. Critical to its success had been the effective management of a variety of key stakeholders. This article focuses upon three key periods of FMG's development: a) the construction ...
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Corporate governance, institutional ownership, and potential growth of US firms
This study examines the impact of corporate governance and institutional ownership on the potential growth of US firms. Two hundred ninety US firms listed on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) were sampled for a period of three years (from 2009–2011). The findings of this study show that corporate governance and institutional ownership influence the potential growth of US firms. This study ...
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Perceptions of stakeholder engagement – just what is it really?
There is a wealth of literature available that discusses the theory of stakeholder management and engagement, and even lively debates about partnerships, but what does this all mean to the people who will be delivering it in the future, in particular, the students in higher education today. This paper is a meta-analysis which utilises material gathered through the use of class-based activities ...
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An innovative management system to create new values
This paper proposes a model that creates a new value through a new management system. The values encompass two aspects: the stakeholders' values and the characteristics of the values. The basic concept behind our research on competition is based on the concept of competere, which is the Latin root of the English word compete. Com means together and petere means searching for an ideal of the ...
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The third who joins a negotiation: a systematic review of the literature
The article is aimed at providing a different perspective on third parties and tries to systematise our understanding about multilateral negotiations and integrative agreements. The key concepts investigated were the connection between the third who joins and the negotiation process, outcome and effectiveness, within business contexts. Research was guided using the so–called negotiation theory as ...
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Barriers to the growth of small business firms in India
This study examines the barriers to the growth of small business firms in India. The owners of small business firms from Punjab area of India were surveyed to find out their beliefs and feelings regarding factors that affect the growth of their firms. Findings suggest that lack of financing, market challenges, regulatory issues, and infrastructure are perceived as factors that negatively affect ...
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Value creation and capture mechanisms in innovation ecosystems: a comparative case study
This study focuses on value creation and capture in innovation ecosystems. It presents and discusses the findings from a qualitative, comparative case study on two European-led innovation ecosystems from the ICT and aerospace and defence sectors. The purpose of the research is to explore the tangible and intangible mechanisms related to how leading firms may facilitate value creation and capture ...
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Stakeholder involvement in the drinking water supply system: a case study of stakeholder analysis in China
Stakeholder involvement in drinking water supply systems is crucial for the successful management and improvement of drinking water supply systems. However, there is no agreement on stakeholders, their interests, and levels of importance, especially in drinking water supply systems. To achieve efficient stakeholder management, the first step is to understand who the major stakeholders are and ...
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Redefining environmental management system boundaries through stakeholder management across product life-cycle
The paper makes an attempt to show that integration of life-cycle thinking into EMS can certainly address environmental issues, external to the organisation. New emphasis must be placed on product life-cycle thinking, to achieve business performance consistent with sustainability principles. In effect, the paper calls for redesigning the EMS through life-cycle environmental review (LCER) capable ...
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Exploring complex emergency situations' dynamic: theoretical, epistemological and methodological proposals
This article puts forward a way to study the dynamics of an emergency event. Our focus is on the dynamics of human collective activities during emergency periods and on their relations with the occurrence of crises. Distinguishing three dimensions for the analyses, a complex but rich framework is presented. The various theories on collective work (situated action, distributed cognition, ...
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The growth determinants among Swedish SMEs: evidence from firm-level data
This paper identifies the firm-level internal determinants that explain the economic growth of Swedish SMEs. The analysis is based on a sample consisting of 989 growth SMEs and 6,119 non-growth SMEs with 95,475 observations, and applies logistic regression models for the period 2004-2006. The results, which have a high rate of accuracy, indicate that a set of four factors – age, size, leverage ...
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Strategic cost management: preliminary lessons from European companies
Entrepreneurial drive, technology, and productivity are three characteristics which give many European companies a role of worldwide importance. This article describes strategic cost management within the framework of strategic management reflecting the current European approach. The conclusion is that at present European companies: (1) are making core competencies the guiding ideas of their ...
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Stakeholder involvement in water management: the role of the stakeholder analysis within participatory processes
Water is a central resource supporting human activities and ecosystems and it is required for different purposes and uses that are often conflicting. Existing water-related problems are expected to increase and conventional water resource management systems are not likely to be able to face future challenges. There is the need for an integrated water resources management, which should be ...
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BrainSpace: a virtual environment for collaboration and innovation
Innovation and problem solving processes take place more and more beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. Therefore, new methods and tools are necessary to foster multiple stakeholder relationships and manage distributed knowledge creation. This paper addresses some of the key considerations for collaboration and innovation, compares different possible approaches to support them and derives an ...
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Facilitating Client Value Creation in the Conceptual Design Phase of Construction Projects: A Workshop Approach
If client values are not fully understood in a construction project it is likely to result in either low fulfilment of client expectations or multiple design alterations during the project process which lead to additional costs and frustration among the project participants. However, it is not a straightforward management task to operationalize client value in construction. Within this context, ...
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Effects of the manager's value orientation on stakeholder participation: at the front line of policy implementation
Managers who implement stakeholder participation often have to navigate a complex subsystem of actors, policy-making institutions, and varying problem definitions. This paper examines how these managers’ values affect decision-making and the operationalisation of stakeholder participation, and how the institutional framework in which the managers are embedded affects these values. It is ...
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Types of governance, financial policy and the financial performance of micro-family-owned businesses in Canada
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of type of governance on financial policy and financial performance of micro-family-owned businesses in Canada. This study utilised survey research (a non-experimental field study design). Micro-family-business owners from Western Canada were asked about their beliefs, perceptions and feelings regarding type of governance, financial policy and ...
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Qualitative and quantitative components of a proposed model of effective recovery project for companies in crisis
An increased number of firms are affected by financial crisis and the crisis phenomenon is a very frequent occurrence in the lifecycle of a company. There are several objectives for this study. The first one is to identify the communicative and managerial role of qualitative and quantitative components of a proposed model of recovery project which Italian companies can adopt to overcome a crisis ...
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