Stakeholder Engagement - Science topic

I am working on a project on how to create more innovation in a big hierarchical and bureaucratic organisation. The innovation requires cooperation across the departments in the organisation and cannot be done locally.

Are there any research articles that consider this issue?

I read stories about how big organisations start small external companies to do the innovation. Is there any research that documents the benefits of this approach?

I also consider the matrix organisation structure to increase the innovation. Is there any research on the outcome to this approach?

Any help will be appreciated.

Plan-driven and agile methodologies have different prescriptions for software development. What are the advantages and drawbacks of combining these seemingly incompatible approaches in software development projects?

I invite you all to give your views on the following finding

Dear researchers,

The COVID-19 pandemic has large societal and economic impacts, from which also different stakeholders involved in EU H2020 energy projects are affected. With this survey, we would like to find out how the crisis affects the stakeholder engagement activities of current energy AND marine research projects.

This survey is aimed at researchers responsible for stakeholder engagement - be it project coordinators, or other partners who perform stakeholder activities in your research project.

Completing this survey will take you around 15 minutes. Your answers will be greatly appreciated, and collected information will only be used for the purpose of the research project and will be treated anonymously. By participating in this survey, you agree to our data protection standards (see GDPR Disclaimer for further info). Your answers will enable us to understand the current situation of stakeholder engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. You will thus contribute to helping existing and future EU projects to tackle this challenge.

SURVEY for ENERGY project: https://survey.iass-potsdam.de/index.php/358614?newtest=Y&lang=en

SURVEY for MARINE projects: https://www.limesurvey.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/survey/index/sid/358614/newtest/Y/lang/en

This survey is conducted as a cooperation between the EU H2020 projects SENTINEL (energy science) and PANDORA (fisheries science). We personally want to thank you for supporting our research!

Do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions regarding this survey or our study.

Warm regards from the SENTINEL and PANDORA project!

As I am reviewing the literature on the subject, there are a plethora of publications highlighting the importance of including social science data into future environmental management decisions. however, I am so far unable to find a publication that has shown the application of such social monitoring data to a management action or plan of action.  If anyone knows of a source showing how collected social science data has been applied to a management activity that would be greatly appreciated. I am not interested as much in stakeholder engagement and workshop results as I am in overall socioeconomic collections.  Thanks!

I asked a question "Who are the stakeholders in Flood Management tools? " from you all (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Who_are_the_stakeholders_in_Flood_Management_tools ) and I got very attractive, diversify answeres from various part of the world. Here is a summary of the interesting answers. However, I invite you to all the contribute your views too.

"William F. Hansen, certified professional hydrologist (PH) of USA with more than 40 years’ consultancy experiences, suggested a large group of activities and stakeholders to the present scenario. He has identified three major areas in flood management as planning & forecasting, early warnings and rescue, with the activities and stockholders. Then the author has identified that the components discussed in the planning and forecasting have being already included in the identified system components. But it identified new stakeholders in early warning and rescue phases such as people who warn the flood recipient as well as reduce/control the flood. There, the communication requirements; flood controlling and rescue activities such as dam and reservoir water management, clearing the drainages and damage assessments. However, when considering such points, the components in hydro-GIS modelling framework (scope of the present research) are considering the flood management early actions to reduce the future occurrences. But William is highlighting all the flood activities including flood damage control and flood disaster management both. Then the present work reviewed William’s stakeholders who are only related to the scope of the present study, could be successfully grouped into identified system components. Nevertheless, he paid attention to designating the responsibilities among people. Specially, when considering the responsibilities, there is a substantial risk with making insufficient or incomplete decision making. The liability, need for insurance, bonding, licensing and other legal relations with the flood risk increasing the number of stakeholders. However, the present study considers, all these stakeholders are influencing the decision by guiding and optioning as rules/controllers. Therefore they were grouped in to “Decision Makers” category.

Eugene A. Simonov, a prominent researcher at Research Department, Daursky Biosphere Reserve, Russia, shared his experience & the book on the flood of the Amur River Basin. The Amur basin is laid across transboundary of Russia and China. By going through Eugene’s experience, it could identify an interesting phenomenon of human nature; i.e. Russian citizens have built expensive country houses called Dacha in the flood risk area of Amur river basin. During the 2013 flood, some of those houses were damaged and the Russian government granted incentives to damaged property, either free house in flood safe area or cost of the damage or the both. Then, it can realise that knowing the hazard, general public willing construct even in the vulnerable area (in this case it is illegal). However, it is difficult to reason out for that, but it can argue one of the reason is the expectation of government compensations. Further, it realised that the owners of the country houses are rich/noble family, basically, they utilise the house for a particular time of the year. By 1990s average 25% of citizens of seven main cities had a Dacha (Struyk and Angelici, 1996). Due to the Soviet-era political and social situations, these houses had strict standards but after the Soviet collapsing, people spend more money and resources to expand and elevate the quality of houses. By 2017, a new law simplified land plot categories and allowed to register the residential plots as permanent residents. Now, almost 60 million people out of total 145 million own a kind of a Dacha and weekends of the summer they rush to the country houses making the town empty. The interest to the present study is these duel-house owners become flood victims even they are not living in the house when flood time. Therefore, it will need more different flood warning systems to them. However, due to the present study deliberates the actions regarding flood control, it considers this type of stakeholder as recipients.

Bibhash Sarma, Civil Engineering Professor, consultant of Water Resource Department, Assam, India, stated that the Water Resources Department of the state, Ministry of Water Resources, prominent academic institutions of the locality, disaster management cell, local administration, active NGOs working in the related field and renowned hydrologist to be added to the model. Then author regrouped the stipulated stakeholders as Decision Makers (Water Resources Department of the state, Ministry of Water Resources, disaster management cell, local administration, active NGOs working in the related field - When they assisting decision making), Modellers (prominent academic institutions of the locality, renowned hydrologist) and Recipients (active NGOs working in the related field - When they assisting the general public). The professor has agreed to the regrouping and directed to further categorise the private hydropower generators as the recipient. However, when water resource departments and other reservoir operating agencies are making their own policies based on the decision they made collectively for common flood management, their role is changed to “Recipient”. This behaviour of NGOs and local water decision makers elegant the one idea. That is, when considering the stakeholders, it has to more closely review their role when categorising.

[PR1]Eugene Simonov is a Russian environmentalist who co-founded the Rivers Without Boundaries Coalition. He has created a network of stakeholders interested in river conservation along the China-Mongolia border, where dam building on a monumental scale threatens the fragile wetland ecosystems in the birthplace of Genghis Khan."

Mostly, without considering the role of other stakeholders/projects/schemes, one project while assessing its impact claims all the changes happened as its impact!

Is there anyone out there in the field of foreign/modern language education that is engaging in university-industry-community collaborations?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to map various business model canvases. The most widespread is the one proposed by Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010), but there are other ones, such as the Service Logic Business Model Canvas (Ojasalo and Ojasalo, 2015) or the triple layered business model canvas (Joyce and Paquin, 2016). Do you know and/or can you recommend any other one? Thank you, Luca

References

Joyce, A., & Paquin, R. 2016. The Triple Layered Business Model Canvas: A Tool to Design More Sustainable Business Models. Journal of Cleaner Production 135 (November): 1474–86. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.067.

Ojasalo, J., & Ojasalo, K. 2015. Using Service Logic Business Model Canvas in Lean Service Development. In Proceedings of the 2015 Naples Forum on Service, June 9–12, 2015, Naples, Italy.

Osterwalder, A., & Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley.

The general public relies increasingly on mobile applications for day-to-day services. Beyond sharing data sets, it is more and more important for agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, USAID, the World Bank, etc. to satisfy the communications needs of their clients, audiences, and partners (not to mention those of their own employees) by the same means. Across the project cycle, meaning, the various stages from country programming to project completion and evaluation, where might there be opportunities for cheap, effective, and low-maintenance mobile applications à la "build-once, deploy-anywhere"?

I'm looking for empirical papers that describe how (for example processes, routines, activities) medium/large companies integrate (include) external stakeholders in the innovation - or new product development - process stages.

Change management, How business use of information and processes change in CRM.

I am looking for evidence on social development. Although, many researchers including Brundtland Commission Report (1987) defined sustainable development  as development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”, is this definition is only limited to physical aspects of development?

If so what about the social aspects of development? 

Can the social development too sustainable? If so how?

I am looking for concise statements of the general propositional content of stakeholder theory. I am working on this very problem, and I have taken of in treatments along the lines of Donaldson & Preston (1995). I find these treatments flawed, though very useful as a starting point. Do you guys know of any treatments of the various types of statements that make up so called "integrated" stakeholder theory? I am not looking for discussions of the epistemic features that differ between descriptive and normative stakeholder theory, though treatments that also cover this are welcome as well.

Is there any existing attempts at spelling out the precise content that comprises a minimal stakeholder theory, and the logical connections between the subtheories? If so, give me a pointer.

In case you are interested in the topic, feel free to let me know. I am working on many themes that I wish to discuss with someone also engaged with the general topic. We can talk privately, or I can make a discussion thread on here if it has interest.

In case someone wishes to input something, we can end with a question:

Q1: Do you believe that stakeholder theory comprises distinct propositions expressing descriptive and normative content, or do you believe (with Freeman and others) that the normative and descriptive content can't be separated? Please elaborate you position somewhat.

Q2: Any reading suggestions for treatments of this topic? Please share!

Kind regards,

Luca

Dear All, we are doing project on Development of Model using Lean Construction Technique for minimising construction waste. for that we had frame a questionnaire so I request you please give your remark on questionnaire

We started a new project to analyze supply chain resilience in New Zealand. The plan is using bottom-up collected quantitative and qualitative data as an addition to the already established statistical database, and use these for developing the network and input-output models. We want to model the ripple of effect of different events and explore the potential impacts improving the bouncing back capabilities. Do you have any similar experience in any parts of the above? I would like to talk about your experience and understand what kind of difficulties we have to face off.

This project is absolutely interesting to me, both as a researcher on innovation and public policy and as an oil industry professional. Your approach is going to be concentrated on the Norwegian site or you also want to evaluate the international linkages of the Norwegian oil and gas value chain?

We plan to use bottom-up collected quantitative and qualitative data as an addition to the already established statistical database, and use these for developing the network and input-output models. Do you have any similar experience in any parts of the above? I would like to talk about your experience and understand what kind of difficulties we have to face off.

 Recent main issues and questions about ethics in public Administration

Can anyone let me know how excessive pay may affect directors performance, please help.

I'm looking for an ethnographic study that did not use interviews as a method or an article with methodological argumentation for not using this method. Thank you!

what are the Infrastructure Project Governance challenges and limitation? for developing country.

I find Dr. Toni Whited has built a very elegant dynamic model and structural estimation in Corporate Finance: http://toni.marginalq.com/

I was wondering if there are any corporate finance scholars that use Econometrics in such a stylish manner. It would better if they also provide codes online. 

The Project Management Institute recognises 10 knowledge areas:

• project integration mgt

• project scope mgt

• project time mgt

• project cost mgt

• project quality mgt

• project human resources mgt

• project communications mgt

• project risk mgt

• Project procurement mgt

• project stakeholder mgt

The scrum alliance shows Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone through mastering:

- Sprints

- daily StandUp

- Retrospective

- Backlog

Which one are you more at ease with?

How Quality Requirements handling differ in service oriented and product-oriented software development? Is it possible that software requirements from product manager and project leader perspective are in conflict? How?

Please provide valuable suggestions.

Several studies have addressed the theory of complexity in a theoretical way, advancing in the discussions about the boundaries of this theory. However, when analyzing empirically the complexity in organizations, the difficulties are many. I am conducting a survey of the best qualitative methods for empirically studying complexity in organizations. What do you think about it? What empirical research would you indicate to me?

I am looking for guidelines for sustainable community development to apply to the Babcock Ranch development in Charlotte County. Any ideas?

Terry Wimberley

What are the pitfalls or negative impacts of using standardization of goods,processes, and logistics activities in humanitarian context by a focal NGO. 

There are a lot of evidence which shows that social media is essential  for promote events, now social media provides a platform to broaden your audience, connect with decision makers, and engage stakeholders and more, scientists are increasingly using social media as a way to share also its experiences. This is an opportunity for a scientific event. What are the key good practice strategies to follow?

Does "strategic uses" mean more public participations, more discussions, more interactions of stakeholders, and more knowledge exchanges?

I have read some articles, but it seems a few real experiences shared in papers:)

Dear All,

I am conducting a study on sustainable land management in demined areas in post war setting. I need to propose a framework/model to introduce sustainable land management in the war torn area so that people will practice eco-friendly agriculture. In order to reach this objective, I need to learn how to develop a framework and how to write/present it. At the moment, I have collected the relevant data and have the idea but struggling to put it in an analytical form. Therefore, would be very grateful for you all if you could kindly share a few studies (any area) which have proposed a framework at the end. Sample frameworks would be very helpful! 

Note: To be precise, I am not looking at theoretical or typical conceptual framework that we normally used to write in thesis. 

Many thanks and all the best to your research work.

Harshi 

I will be researching an structural change (from hierarchical to holocratic) in a company with the ethnographic observation method. I have no experience with this approach and would be glad to hear your personal recommendations about this kind of studies. My Scales and Behavior anchors are still to be constructed, so I'm really open to new perspectives.  Thank you! Best regards, Eliana 

Currently exploring value creation process to find how organisation yield value by improving knowledge, innovation, intrinsic motivation, R&D, implementing organic culture, best practice, process etc. and the real impact of those in risk management. 

You describe the goal without describing the real goal ;) Is the goal to develop new and foremost easy process chains to bring semantic decorated content to companies? And what is "apt smart content delivery"? Regards

Dear All!

I'm looking for literature on the importance of conceptualization, definitions in business, organization; papers which examine why it is important for organizations to have clear definitions of their strategies and policies

I am looking to measure reputation (what others think of you) and image (what you are trying to project of yourself).

In a global society hyper-connected, we see emerging practices in communication and collaboration on line in all fields. Nevertheless, health research organizations working on international network are skating to adapt to this disruptive social process to meet the needs of researchers. So I am looking for ways to facilitate communication and exchanges between health researchers within this type de formal organizations network.

Can systems thinking help?

I'm wondering if anybody is conducting any research, or for that matter has found any valuable research, linking Asian concepts of "Face" and Risk of Failure, Failure and Innovation. The literature appears sparse.

Hidden costs associated the organization of work

If there are any, kindly suggest me a few articles or reading sources. Thank you.

This book builds on the previous theoretical underpinnings of the corporate social responsibility agenda, including Corporate Citizenship (Carroll, 1998; Waddock, 2004; Matten and Crane, 2004), Creating Shared Value (Porter and Kramer, 2011; 2006), Stakeholder Engagement (Freeman, 1984) and Business Ethics (Crane and Matten, 2004) as it presents the latest Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR2.0) perspective. The CSR2.0 notion is increasingly being recognized as a concept that offers ways of thinking and behaving that has potential to deliver significant benefits to both business and society (The International Conference(s) on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, organized by the Humboldt University Berlin in 2014, 2016).

We need to find good practice / upgrading strategy stakeholder engagement indicators for ultimately assessing implications on food security

I work with decision making within production systems design, but I believe that this question can be answered by people from a much broader researcher area.

This is the case: you as researcher figured that a certain group of people would be benefited by having some framework/guidelines/tool to address some of the issues they have been copying with (which they might be not aware of!). You think this tool will be hopefully improving the performances of the system they handle, so after you developed it you are eager to use it within an existing system, which will be serving as your first case study.

But this cannot be done at the moment. For instance: the industry is not ready for this, you have been unlucky and you didn't manage to find a suitable case, the data to be used won't be reliable, etc.

So, can we still talk about the validation of this work or shall we talk about the usefulness of developing such a work for starters?

If so, what should the researcher do to prove at least the usefulness or potentials of such a tool? 

I was thinking along the lines of a "lighter" implementation of the tool coupled with a questionnaire/interview to the target users on their thoughts on the tool, which may consist in perceptions of potentials and shortcomings,expectations, etc.

How do you see such an approach and what are your suggestions to address this problem?

Do you have previous experiences with it?

Thank you for your help.

I have observed in the area of infrastructure research that governance is framed in bureaucratic terms. However, current threads of planning, policy and governance theory seem to point to a more intersubjective process that recognises complexity e.g. actor consultant model (de Roo & Porter). Given that much infrastructure decision making is undertaken through various committee structures that involve all levels of government, in part due to the nature of Federal fiscal primacy, how important is the intersubjective and collaborative aspect of these processes as negotiations between different levels of government?

How can a company increase the number of shares held by sharesholders without making any change to the assets and liabilities of the company?

I am involved in evaluating a stakeholder engagement project (Technology ethics) . The aim of the project is to improve respect of ethics principles and laws in technology research and innovation, and to ensure that they are adapted to the evolution of technologies and societal concerns.

One of the main focus of the evaluation is assessing the impact of the project to stakeholders. However, I am thinking about ways of measuring impact (qualitatively, quantitatively or a mixture of both) therefore any suggestions are welcome. The evaluation will be looking at, for example, stakeholders change in attitudes or behavior  towards technology ethics, evidence of learning, level of  involvement/ engagement during and after the project's life cycle.

Please can you share any articles that discusses the direct relationship between sharing knowledge and stakeholder engagement in projects where most of relationships are discussed in the indirect way. Regards.

Is it must be more than stakeholder maturity or not?

I am very interested in the latest social license to operate scientific insights for projects in the oil, gas and mining industry

1. social risk analysis : 

- scientific quantitative and qualitative social (and political) risk analysis, both collective and individual 

-  advanced social group risk analysis

2. on stakeholder engagement

- tri-partite stakeholder engagement dynamics between state, private sector and civil society, the effect of the quality of the relation between A and B for C

- multi stakeholder mechanisms to build or restore trust in negotiation and monitoring of agreements

3. the interplay between perceived and measured risks by social actors

determining indicators to analyse and measure individual and collective group characteristics 

I have tried searching for semi structured and closed questionnaires in the following websites; ERIC, NEBRASKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE - US, TIP, EBSCO and DISCOVER but I could not find an instrument with credibility and reliability for purpose of Generalization with a high CRONBACH ALPHA.

I will appreciate any assistance. Thanks

This is particularly in the context of local government which is the clisest tier to the people.

Academia provides scientific knowledge; governments provide regulations, enforcement, and financial support; organizations bring parties together, advocate and promote participation, etc.; and private sectors innovation and technical support.

I'm wondering in the two topics of stakeholder management and CBR.

In any system or tool or analysis or anything, users/stakeholder are always the key players. Even in CBR the process of verification and validation takes place with user(s).

I'm wondering the opposite, how CBR can aid in the management of stakeholders?