Open Research Questions for Incorporating Multi-Stakeholder Interests in Engineering for Global Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip D. Stevenson ◽  
Amy E. Wood ◽  
Christopher A. Mattson ◽  
John L. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Modeling Processes ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Multiple Stakeholder ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Social Impact Design

Abstract There is potential for multi-stakeholder social impact design approaches to help advance design and modeling processes in engineering for global development. Adding multiple stakeholders, however, raises questions about how to choose stakeholders, weight their preferences, and ultimately model the perceived or actual impacts of products on stakeholders. While methods for handling the interests of multiple stakeholders exist in the literature, they are not without problems that are often exacerbated when modeling social impact in an engineering for global development setting. The purpose of this paper is to articulate some of the barriers and open research questions for handling multiple stakeholder interests during the process of designing engineering for global development products. Six challenges and sixteen research questions are presented.

‘A Balancing Act’: Resolving Multiple Stakeholder Interests in Program Evaluation

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Markiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Multiple Stakeholder

Attempting to balance multiple stakeholder interests in program evaluation presents many challenges. The views of different stakeholders as part of a reference group, or multiple stakeholder voices within a sector, are often diverse and reflect different political and organisational interests. In order to ensure that the evaluation product is widely accepted, and thereby utilised, these differences need to be recognised, and mediated. To work effectively with multiple stakeholders in this manner, the evaluator requires well developed negotiation skills. This paper argues that negotiation is an essential component to the planning stage of an evaluation, and that strategic steps need to be taken early in the evaluation process to ensure consensus is developed in stakeholder expectations regarding methodology and outcomes from the evaluation. This article will put forward a number of negotiation principles for evaluation practice which view the evaluator as enabling stakeholders to appreciate all positions, including that of the evaluator, with consensus emerging from increased understanding and consciousness raising.

scholarly journals Understanding the Importance of Stakeholder Management in Achieving Sustainable Ecotourism

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Salman ◽  
Mastura Jaafar ◽  
Diana Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multiple Stakeholder ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Ecotourism brings many economic, environmental, and socio-cultural benefits to the tourism destination, but its implementation is not simple. Several studies in the past have shown the importance of including stakeholders for the development of ecotourism in the area. Understanding stakeholders varied interests and their power of influence is vital to achieve sustainability in a tourism destination. The study aimed to develop a multi-stakeholder management model that could unite stakeholders towards achieving sustainable ecotourism in the area. A critical synthesis of the literature was conducted by classifying and then critically reviewing the literature to construct and integrate the variables that could help in the better management of stakeholders, which would lead towards the development of a framework that can guide in achieving sustainability in ecotourism. This study validates previous findings and also directs to develop a sustainable ecotourism framework through which the environmental, social, and economic benefits can be achieved in the destination. Understanding multiple stakeholders helps to achieve sustainability and, as a result, makes the tourist destination experience better for both the visitor and host. The developed model would add value to the literature by enriching tourism destination stakeholders understanding, precisely related to the multiple stakeholder management, and leads to achieving ecotourism sustainability.

scholarly journals Users roles identification on online crowdsourced Q&A platforms and encyclopedias: a survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akrati Saxena ◽  
Harita Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractOnline informal learning and knowledge-sharing platforms, such as Stack Exchange, Reddit, and Wikipedia have been a great source of learning. Millions of people access these websites to ask questions, answer the questions, view answers, or check facts. However, one interesting question that has always attracted the researchers is if all the users share equally on these portals, and if not then how the contribution varies across users, and how it is distributed? Do different users focus on different kinds of activities and play specific roles? In this work, we present a survey of users’ social roles that have been identified on online discussion and Q&A platforms including Usenet newsgroups, Reddit, Stack Exchange, and MOOC forums, as well as on crowdsourced encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, and Baidu Baike, where users interact with each other through talk pages. We discuss the state of the art on capturing the variety of users roles through different methods including the construction of user network, analysis of content posted by users, temporal analysis of user activity, posting frequency, and so on. We also discuss the available datasets and APIs to collect the data from these platforms for further research. The survey is concluded with open research questions.

Governance of differential stakeholder interests in supply chains and networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.F.M. Wubben ◽  
H.J. Bremmers ◽  
P.T.M. Ingenbleek ◽  
A.E.J. Wals
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Health Claims ◽  
Stakeholder Dialogue ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
The Impact

Competing frames and interests regarding food provision and resource allocation, adding to the increased global interdependencies, necessitate agri-food companies and institutions to engage themselves in very diverse multi-stakeholder settings. To develop new forms of interaction, and governance, researchers with very different backgrounds in social sciences try to align, or at least share, research trajectories. This first paper in a special issue on governance of differential stakeholder interests discusses, first, different usages of stakeholder categories, second, the related intersubjectivity in sciences, third, an rough sketch of the use of stakeholder management in different social sciences. Social science researchers study a wide variety of topics, such as individual stakeholder impact on new business models, stakeholder group responses to health claims, firm characteristics explaining multi-stakeholder dialogue, and the impact of multi-stakeholder dialogue on promoting production systems, and on environmental innovations. Interestingly, researchers use very different methods for data gathering and data analysis.

Assessing Global Needs When Identifying Potential Engineering for Global Development Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Mabey ◽  
Christopher A. Mattson ◽  
Eric C. Dahlin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Technological Achievement ◽  
Key Questions

Abstract With limited time and resources available to carry out Engineering for Global Development (EGD) projects, it can be difficult to know where those resources should be allocated to have greater potential for meaningful impact. It is easy to assume that projects should occur in a particular location based on personal experience or where other development projects are taking place. This can be a consideration, but it may not lead to the greatest social impact. Where to work on a project and what problem to work on are key questions in the early stages of product development in the context of EGD. To aid in this process, this article presents a method for assessing global needs to ensure thoughtful use of limited EGD resources. We introduce a method for identifying locations where there is human need, gaps in technological achievement, and what the work environment is in a country. Results of the method are compared to what countries receive the most foreign aid dollars per capita. Measures were calculated using the principal component analysis on data from development agencies. These results can help practitioners in selecting where to undertake development projects with an eye toward targeting locations that may yield high levels of social impact.

scholarly journals An Economic Efficiency Approach to Reforming Corporate Governance: The Case of Multiple Stakeholder Boards

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-404
Author(s):  
Say H. GOO
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Corporate Decisions ◽  
Multiple Stakeholder ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis paper points out the problems of the current law on directors’ duties that forces directors to ignore stakeholder interests, with the unintended consequences of misallocation of resources and the weaknesses of a traditional legal approach to law reform, and uses multiple stakeholder boards as an example to demonstrate how an economic efficiency approach to law reform, adopting economic principles, could avoid some of the unintended consequences of a legal approach to law reform and help design better rules that promote allocative efficiency for the benefit of society as a whole. It argues that international organizations should take the lead in promoting the use of stakeholder directors in the board of directors of multinational corporations that have a history of corporate abuses for corporate decisions that have an impact on all stakeholders.

scholarly journals Lessons Learnt, Open Research Questions and Recommendations

2016 ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Christine Bismuth ◽  
Bernd Hansjürgens ◽  
Timothy Moss ◽  
Sebastian Hoechstetter ◽  
Klement Tockner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Research ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Research Questions

scholarly journals Enhancing the Impact of Research: Experimenting with Network Leadership Strategies to Grow a Vibrant Nature-Based Learning Research Network

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Jordan ◽  
Cheryl Charles ◽  
Avery Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Leadership Strategies ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Network Building ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Advance Knowledge

Research can fall short of having societal impact due to traditions of the research enterprise as well as the perceptions of researchers about their appropriate role. What if researchers saw their work as part of a social movement to make change, and the research enterprise was designed to encourage that view and to facilitate relevance, rigor, activation of research, and a collaborative approach to address research questions aligned with a common goal? What would such a research enterprise look like? In this article, we describe the application of “network leadership strategies” to develop a “generative, social-impact network” to support the efforts of a nature-based learning research network to advance knowledge of the natural environment's impact on children's learning and educational outcomes. The activities and achievements of the nature-based learning research network are examined through the lens of network-building approaches aiming to create social impact. Though inspired by and grounded in these approaches, the reality is that certain constraints influenced our ability to function collaboratively as a generative, social-impact network and to fully realize the potential of this approach. We describe these challenges and offer recommendations for other researchers interested in enhancing the social impact of research.

scholarly journals A comprehensive review of plus-minus ratings for evaluating individual players in team sports

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Magnus Hvattum
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Sports Analytics ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Open Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Individual Player ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Many

AbstractThe increasing availability of data from sports events has led to many new directions of research, and sports analytics can play a role in making better decisions both within a club and at the level of an individual player. The ability to objectively evaluate individual players in team sports is one aspect that may enable better decision making, but such evaluations are not straightforward to obtain. One class of ratings for individual players in team sports, known as plus-minus ratings, attempt to distribute credit for the performance of a team onto the players of that team. Such ratings have a long history, going back at least to the 1950s, but in recent years research on advanced versions of plus-minus ratings has increased noticeably. This paper presents a comprehensive review of contributions to plus-minus ratings in later years, pointing out some key developments and showing the richness of the mathematical models developed. One conclusion is that the literature on plus-minus ratings is quite fragmented, but that awareness of past contributions to the field should allow researchers to focus on some of the many open research questions related to the evaluation of individual players in team sports.

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