scholarly journals Tackling Grand Challenges beyond Dyads and Networks: Developing a Stakeholder Systems View Using the Metaphor of Ballet

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Roulet ◽  
Joel Bothello
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Stakeholder Networks ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
Systems View

Tackling grand challenges requires coordination and sustained effort among multiple organizations and stakeholders. Yet research on stakeholder theory has been conceptually constrained in capturing this complexity: existing accounts tend to focus either on dyadic level firm–stakeholder ties or on stakeholder networks within which the focal organization is embedded. We suggest that addressing grand challenges requires a more generative conceptualization of organizations and their constituents as stakeholder systems. Using the metaphor of ballet and insights from dance theory, we highlight four defining dimensions of stakeholder systems (two structural and two dyadic); we proceed to offer a dynamic model of how those dimensions may interact and coevolve. Our metaphor and resulting theory of stakeholder systems are thereby well equipped to incorporate the complexity of tackling grand challenges, where many contemporary stakeholder arrangements are oriented around issues rather than firms.

Event Portfolios and Stakeholder Networks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Antchak ◽  
Vassilios Ziakas ◽  
Donald Getz
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Stakeholder Networks ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Stakeholder Cooperation

Stakeholder theory and management are of great importance within the events sector (van Niekerk & Getz, 2019). The focus of this chapter is on stakeholder cooperation and management within an event portfolio. First, the nature of inter-organisational relationships in the event sector will be examined. Second, the effects of strategic collaboration between different actors in a portfolio network will be analysed. Last, the characteristics of institutional structures and specifics of portfolio governance will be introduced and discussed.

Stakeholder Influences and Organization Responses: A Case Study of Corporate Social Responsibility Suspension

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhuan Liu ◽  
Tianli Feng ◽  
Suichuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Firm Survival ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Corporate Social

ABSTRACTIn this study, we use the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) suspension and provide a case study from China to show how conditions allowed shareholders to seize power and alter a firm's mission. We show that managers reacted to a change in shareholder power by changing their priorities to correlate with shareholder influences. Our dynamic model first highlights the importance of precipitating events that allowed shareholders to seize power. In response, managers rebalanced their priorities, paid more attention to the shareholders who demanded higher profits, and suspended ethical and discretionary responsibilities as a result. We further present evidence that CSR suspension subsequently harms relationships between stakeholders and threatens firm survival. We contribute to stakeholder theory by providing a dynamic model for interpreting stakeholder influences and managers’ subsequent responses. We add to corporate social responsibility studies by providing a more nuanced understanding of CSR suspension.

Stakeholder Considerations for Residents, Communities and Cities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathilda van Niekerk ◽  
Donald Getz
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Stakeholder Networks ◽  
The World ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
The City

Events, and therefore event tourism, tend to be attached to their host communities, even embedded within close and strong stakeholder networks. It is true there are many footloose events, won through bidding, or otherwise moving around the world, but a degree of dependence on place and social networks is the norm. This raises two concepts of importance: place identity and place attachment. This chapter will focus on the aspects that are important for the residents during stakeholder engagement. It will also look at the needs of the community and apply the stakeholder theory to the city and destination.

Short-term volume and turgor regulation in yeast

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Schaber ◽  
Edda Klipp
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Volume Change ◽  
Volume Regulation ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Osmotic Shock ◽  
Intracellular Concentration ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Hydrodynamic Property ◽  
Turgor Regulation ◽  
Thermodynamic Framework

Volume is a highly regulated property of cells, because it critically affects intracellular concentration. In the present chapter, we focus on the short-term volume regulation in yeast as a consequence of a shift in extracellular osmotic conditions. We review a basic thermodynamic framework to model volume and solute flows. In addition, we try to select a model for turgor, which is an important hydrodynamic property, especially in walled cells. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of the presented approach by fitting the dynamic model to a time course of volume change upon osmotic shock in yeast.

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