The Role of Internal and External Stakeholders

2015 ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rómulo Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
External Stakeholders

The technological community as a framework for educating for sustainability in business schools

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 656-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Benn ◽  
Cathy Rusinko
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Technological Community

AbstractThis paper adapts and extends the technological community perspective (e.g., Van de Ven, 1993), to review and analyze the outcomes of a series of three research projects funded by the Australian Government as reported in a number of publicly available documents. The projects were designed to support education for sustainability within Australian business schools and to promote knowledge sharing between the business schools and industry around sustainability. Project participants included seven business schools and their industry collaborators.The technological community perspective, which is particularly well-suited to examining this innovative education for sustainability project, is a theoretical framework that examines evolution of innovation at the community level; this includes multiple internal and external stakeholders, and is beyond the more traditional uni-dimensional focus on organization or industry levels. This approach provides lessons with respect to complex and dynamic interactions between and among multiple stakeholders responsible for successful development and dissemination of sustainability in business schools, corporations, and beyond.Hence, this paper addresses issues raised in the call for papers for the special issue of Journal of Management and Organization, ‘Educating for Sustainability and CSR: What is the role of business schools?’ The paper addresses the questions: (1) What are the barriers for business schools with respect to integrating sustainability in the curricula; (2) What role do partnerships with other stakeholders play in such initiatives?

Stakeholder informed non-traditional student induction: a balanced approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Soontiens ◽  
Rosemary Kerr ◽  
Grace Ang ◽  
Glennda Scully
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Traditional Student ◽  
Induction Program ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Australian Universities

Purpose The paper considers the evolution of a tailored university induction program over time to establish the change in the nature and content of the program. Design/methodology/approach The induction program is pitched against the conceptual backdrop of academic norms and conventions, language, integration and the role of mentoring. As an exploratory study of a unique and complex induction program it reports on the basis of discourse analysis over time (from 2009 to 2012). Findings The paper establishes that consideration of feedback by students, university staff (academic and professional) and external stakeholders has allowed the program to morph to a balanced content of academic; social; and socio-academic integration activities. Research limitations/implications The paper confirms the framework proposed by Zepke and Leach (2005) and renders a further level of validity to the model when applied in a cross-cultural higher education context. Practical implications Practical implications include the value of involving stakeholders as source of knowledge for considering continuous improvements and the notion that a remedial approach to integration of international students proves to be ineffective. Originality/value Articulation pathways for Chinese university students into Australian universities create a unique set of expectations and challenges to both the students and the Australian universities. A tailor made induction program is a crucial step in addressing these and requires continuous improvement to retain relevance and optimise impact and resources.

External Stakeholder Impacts on Third-Party Interventions in Resolving Malignant Conflicts: The Case of a Failed Third-Party Intervention in Cyprus

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-416
Author(s):  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Third Party Intervention ◽  
External Stakeholder ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Internal Stakeholders ◽  
Building Project

AbstractThis article focuses on the potentially positive and negative impact that multiple and competing external stakeholders (influential foreign powers, supranational institutions, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs from various countries) can have on official and non-official third-party peace building initiatives. The example examined in this article describes a Swiss NGO-initiated intercommunal project in Cyprus. It analyzes the failure of this confidence-building project by looking at the role of external (and to a lesser degree, internal) stakeholders in the intervention. The article is descriptive and narrative due to the fact that access to confidential information of key stakeholder governments and institutions remains limited. The aim of the authors is to use this field experience in Cyprus to further develop the theory and practice of third-party intervention into persistent and malignant conflicts characterized by interference from multiple external stakeholders.

scholarly journals Difficulties in Building Relationships with External Stakeholders: A Family-Firm Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4557
Author(s):  
Joanna Sadkowska
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
External Stakeholders

Currently, there is a growing number of businesses which organize their operations in the form of projects. One of the key success factors in the area of project management is building successful relationships with project stakeholders. Using stakeholder theory perspective and looking through the lens of family involvement, the study addresses two research questions: 1. how do family firms perceive the difficulty in building relationships with external stakeholders compared to other project management difficulties; 2. does organizing work in the form of projects redefine the significance of family involvement in the difficulties of building relationships with external stakeholders. To answer these questions, 154 Polish family-owned enterprises, considered as representatives of Eastern European emerging economies, were surveyed. The results indicate that family involvement strongly influences the difficulties in building relationships with external stakeholders, but only in those companies which at the time of the survey were not managing projects. In the firms employing project management practices, only the factor related to increasing the number of employees had a facilitating effect on the studied phenomenon. On the contrary, in the case of family firms not managing projects, the growth in the number of employees increased the difficulty in building relationships with external stakeholders. The findings add to the research on the role of family involvement in building relationships with a firm’s external stakeholders.

The Role of Committees in Rights Protection in Federal and State Parliaments in Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Grenfell ◽  
Sarah Moulds
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Emerging Culture ◽  
The Right

This article offers a snapshot of how Australian parliamentary committees scrutinise Bills for their rights-compliance in circumstances where the political stakes are high and the rights impacts strong. It tests the assumption that parliamentary models of rights protection are inherently flawed when it comes to Bills directed at electorally unpopular groups such as bikies and terrorists by analysing how parliamentary committees have scrutinised rights-limiting anti-bikie Bills and counter-terrorism Bills. Through these case studies a more nuanced picture emerges, with evidence that, in the right circumstances, parliamentary scrutiny of ‘law and order’ can have a discernible rights-enhancing impact. The article argues that when parliamentary committees engage external stakeholders they can contribute to the development of an emerging culture of rights-scrutiny. While this emerging culture may not yet work to prevent serious intrusions into individual rights, at the federal level there are signs it may at least be capable of moderating these intrusions.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document