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.

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.

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.

Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Colander ◽  
Roland Kupers
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
Benefit Corporations ◽  
Evolving System ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Modern Analytical ◽  
Policy Solutions

Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists’ policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are useful in some cases, they are damaging in others, directing thinking away from creative, innovative policy solutions. This book outlines a new, more flexible policy narrative, which envisions society as a complex evolving system that is uncontrollable but can be influenced. The book describes how economists and society became locked into the current policy framework, and lay out fresh alternatives for framing policy questions. Offering original solutions to stubborn problems, the complexity narrative builds on broader philosophical traditions, such as those in the work of John Stuart Mill, to suggest initiatives that the authors call “activist laissez-faire” policies. The book develops innovative bottom-up solutions that, through new institutional structures such as for-benefit corporations, channel individuals’ social instincts into solving societal problems, making profits a tool for change rather than a goal. It argues that a central role for government in this complexity framework is to foster an ecostructure within which diverse forms of social entrepreneurship can emerge and blossom.

The antecedents of corporate social and environmental responsibility discourse in Pakistan: Multiple theoretical perspectives

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farhan Basheer ◽  
Saqib Muneer ◽  
Muhammad Atif ◽  
Zubair Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Legitimacy Theory ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Corporate Social

The primary purpose of the study is to explore the antecedents of corporate social and environmental responsibilities discourse practices in Pakistan. The industry sensitivity, government shareholding, block holder ownership, print media coverage, environmental monitoring programs, and strategic posture are examined as antecedents of corporate social and environmental responsibility practices. A multidimensional theoretical perspective namely stakeholder theory (ST), institutional theory (IT), agency theory (PAT), and legitimacy theory (LT) is used to conceptualize the phenomena. All the four of perspective theories (positive accounting theory, legitimacy theory, stakeholder theory, and institutional theory) claim that there are ‘pressures’ that impact the organization. How much ‘pressures’ are recognized, managed or satisfied differs from one perspective of theory to the other. To estimate the data, this study uses three sets of panel data models, i.e., the pooled ordinary least squares model (POLS) or constant coefficients model, fixed effects (FEM or least squares dummy variable/LSDV model) and random-effects models. The final sample is comprising of 173 firms over eight years from 2011 to 2017. The firms listed in PSX are included in the sample. Overall the findings of the study have shown agreement with the proposed results. However, the study has provided more support to the institutional theory and stakeholder theory. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholders Theory, Agency Theory, Pakistan

Ritualized Writing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan D. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
State Control ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Ritual Practices

Transcribing scripture (sutras) represents one of the most central devotional practices in the Buddhist world. Sutra copying functioned as a form of ritualized writing, a practice strategically set apart from more mundane forms through a set of practices and beliefs. This book highlights sutra transcription throughout Asia, but focuses primarily on seventh- through ninth-century Japan, where the practice is particularly well-documented. It shows how scribes engaged in ritual practices related to purification and how patrons held elaborate dedication ceremonies upon the completion of a project. It traces the social organizations and institutional structures through which sutra copying took place. It highlights the function of the practice in the lives of diverse individuals from scribes to rulers. As a whole, the book offers a radical reassessment of Buddhism in ancient Japan that moves beyond scholarly tendencies to focus on state control and exploitation, and proposes a new way to treat scriptures as ritualized texts that interact dynamically with the individuals and communities who produce them.

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