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Sittig, Julia Brooke. "Solar Energy on Arizona Public Lands: Environmental Impacts and Stakeholder Perspectives." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/338759.
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With America’s recent needs for creating jobs, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and becoming "energy independent" from foreign nations, the large-scale deployment of solar energy projects has been proclaimed a solution for rapidly generating "clean" energy. Federal agencies have been mandated by law to expedite the siting of utility-scale solar energy projects (USSEPs) on public lands. In particular, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has focused on USSEP development by creating a national solar energy program as well as state-specific programs for encouraging USSEP development, and has thus far approved two USSEPs in Arizona. Although operational USSEPs do not emit greenhouse gases, they are not completely benign to the environment. USSEPs incur negative impacts on soils, vegetation, air quality, and other natural and cultural resources. Because USSEPs have the potential to mitigate climate change, yet incur other negative environmental impacts, the reaction of citizen stakeholders such as environmental advocates to public lands USSEP development has been mixed. Environmental advocate groups have both encouraged BLM to build USSEPs, and filed lawsuits discouraging project development. In light of the ability of environmental advocates to influence USSEP development, this study explored the complex opinions of members of environmental organizations, conservation groups, watershed initiatives, and solar industry professionals regarding USSEP development on Arizona public lands. Through a review of relevant literature, a content analysis of BLM environmental review documents, and the distribution and statistical analysis of an opinion survey, the study provides insight into the implications of the current BLM Arizona siting process and specific, up-to-date stakeholder perspectives. The results indicate that while BLM Arizona siting policies do attempt to address environmental concerns, significant concerns about the current USSEP siting process remain, and that environmental advocates' support for public lands USSEPs is lower than their support for renewable energy development in general. Stakeholders reported having low levels of three items: knowledge of current solar technologies, understanding of the current federal USSEP siting process, and confidence that the government will appropriately site solar energy projects. Addressing those items may alleviate tensions between stakeholders and public lands decision-makers, resulting in faster and more environmentally responsible USSEP siting.
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Sarker, Zafar Waziha. "The Impacts of Stakeholder Pressures on Workplace Compliance in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1574780270227769.
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Tung, Aaron Wei Jie. "An Exploration of Stakeholder Impacts on the Decommissioning of Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities – The Design, Development, and Analysis of Stakeholder Oriented Critical Paths for United Kingdom and Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84227.
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Past experiences shows that decommissioning activities attracts significant attention from stakeholders who can influence and impact decommissioning projects. This thesis enhances project manager’s understanding of the decommissioning landscape, so that better decisions can be made when managing stakeholders. The thesis highlights that engaging the right stakeholders, in the right way, and at the right time minimises the risk of negative impacts while maximising benefits from stakeholders, leading to a smoother execution of decommissioning projects.
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Eriksson, Björn. "Fins, gills and fishermen : The socio-economic impacts of marine conservation in southern Indonesia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296160.
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Sharks and manta rays are being heavily fished in Indonesia due to Asian demand for shark fins and manta gill rakers. The Indonesian government passed legislation in February 2014 to protect the two species of manta rays. A number of shark species have also been protected or banned from export. A major factor in this decision was the proven economic benefits from ecotourism compared to the economic benefits from the shark finning and manta gill industry.However, previous research on marine conservation underlines that there is a lack of social scientific studies on the socio-economic impacts that marine conservation have on stakeholder fishing communities. In an attempt to start filling this gap of knowledge, the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how the shark and manta ray conservation efforts affect the socio-economic situation of different stakeholder fishing communities in Indonesia. Fieldwork was done in fishing communities in the Komodo and Nusa Penida regions, together with the fishing village Tanjung Luar in Lombok, where people in fishing communities were interviewed about their livelihood situation. The study found that the impacts of marine conservation on the economic situation for stakeholder fishermen affects their attitude towards and compliance with marine conservation efforts. If no profitable economic alternatives are given to fishing, fishing communities have a lower degree of compliance with conservation efforts.
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Shirnina, Elena. "Stakeholder process within limestonequarrying and potential impacts onbiodiversity and ecosystem services. Case study of Bunge Ducker,Northern Gotland, Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-232090.
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Mining has always played an important role in human development. The growing demand for miningnowadays puts under threat biodiversity and ecosystem services, which leads to many conflicts based on choicebetween environment protection and social and economical development. Studying a case of a limestone quarryon Northern Gotland as one of the most representative cases of such conflict, gave an opportunity to investigateand analyze the cost of the decision-making in mining as well as interaction between stakeholders affecting andbeing affected by the decision from the perspective of the group opposing to mining. The research showedweakness of communication between the stakeholders; the weakness of the argument supporting social andeconomical development and giving it higher priority than the environment; and the best possible solution whichwould be turning the whole area of interest into a national park, even though such solution would not fulfilltheinterests of the mining company.
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Harrison, Jennifer Ann. "Sustainable bioenergy feedstock production in rural areas of developing countries : social impacts and stakeholder dynamics in India and Uganda." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1390.
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Improving the availability of secure energy supplies for the poorest rural communities is central to development efforts. World-wide, climate change concerns have led to growing interest in renewable sources, including modern forms of bioenergy. Drivers behind its adoption are diverse, location and scale dependent, and result in multi-level trade-offs. Although impacts are context-specific, bioenergy production and use have a wider impact on issues including deforestation, biodiversity loss, water shortages and food price increases. At local levels reports of labour exploitation, loss of local land rights, market interference and resource depletion are alarming. However, bioenergy projects continue to be promoted and implemented for potential social, environmental and economic benefits, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Efforts to ensure sustainable bioenergy at international levels are emerging, with varying success. Existing market and legislative efforts are often insufficient to ensure positive socio-economic and environmentally sound outcomes locally. This thesis therefore aims to provide two approaches to incorporate socio-economic aspects in planning for sustainable bioenergy production in rural areas of developing countries. The research uses India and Uganda as substantive case studies. Based on these experiences, and in order to better understand the social effects of bioenergy feedstock production, a straightforward two step methodology for assessing social effects of bioenergy projects in developing countries is proposed, intended to be embedded within a planning for sustainability framework. One of the main barriers to success has been effective multi-stakeholder consultation (MSC). To address this, a second approach is conceived, for identifying and understanding stakeholders and their dynamics (in terms of roles, requirements and risks). Initially this focuses on liquid biofuel production models in India using five Jatropha curcas L.-based biodiesel production models in Chhattisgarh State, where the significant distinctions between them are: land ownership and value chain; and market end use and route. When analysing social impacts locally the risks and responsibilities of different stakeholder groups must be considered. The approach is then trialled on eight predominately theoretical models of woody biomass for gasification in Uganda, where the main distinctions are land ownership and feedstock type. Key social issues vary by whether models are corporately or farmer/NGO led, and what production arrangements were in place. Scale of plantation and market size were found to be important; small, privately owned models are unlikely to benefit landless poor and could deplete resources without strategic planning, while larger projects employ more, but often have longer term natural resource impacts. Bioenergy initiatives which collaborate with the rural poor and landless are found to be most likely to result in socio-economic rural development, and one of the proposed Ugandan models which potentially offers social benefits is analysed in terms of additional outcomes. The analysis concludes it is: economically viable; will produce significantly less carbon than generators (dependent on plantation productivity); will not impact local water resources significantly (if converting rangeland); and requires capacity building and stakeholder participation from the outset to promote local ownership and troubleshooting ability. The importance of strategic planning and departmental coordination, and the need for a pilot case to allow the technology to be tested, are shown. It is concluded that participation of stakeholders in the sustainability planning process is crucial, and the approaches proposed in this thesis are robust facilitating tools. Context-specific assessments, such as these, are essential in planning for sustainable bioenergy production and would be expected to facilitate successful MSC and ultimately sustainability planning, improving its contribution to policy making.
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Kentzingen, Raphael. "The Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro : project : related events and their political, aesthetical, economic and technological impacts on the main project actors." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18284.
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This study is concerned on Rio 2016 megaproject management undertaken by theprincipal project actors: The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the OrganisingCommittee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) and the Brazilian Government. Firstly, anintroduction into megaprojects precedes the explanation of two intrinsically linkedconcepts, Complexity and Risk Management. Only after that fundamental portrayal twowidely adopted theories in Megaproject research will be reviewed, namely Stakeholdertheory and Institutional theory. In light of the literature and by means of a content analysisto local and international newspapers articles, the main project related events thatoccurred shortly before, during and after the Olympic Games were extracted andcategorized. In total, twelve project related events were identified. The broader projectmanagement picture related to those issue is supported by a brief description of Rio 2016´s project governance. Finally, the paper finishes with the appeal to widen up theacademic research on the complexity of the Olympic Games as there is a lackingexplanatory and evaluative capability of the aforementioned theories in assessing the mainconceptual undertakings of such a particular megaproject. After all, the unexpected issuesthat the abovementioned actors had to manage are best described by four impactingmegaproject dimensions: The political impact, the aesthetic impact, the economic impactand the technological impact.
Este estudo tem como foco a gestão do megaprojeto Rio 2016 realizada pelos principaisatores do projeto: o Comitê Olímpico Internacional, o Comitê Organizador dos JogosOlímpicos e o Governo Brasileiro. Em primeiro lugar, uma introdução em megaprojectosprecede a explicação de dois conceitos intrinsecamente ligados, Complexidade e Gestãode Risco. Somente após esse retrato fundamental, duas teorias extensamente adotadas napesquisa do megaprojeto serão revistas: Teoria do Stakeholder e Teoria Institucional.Segue, em luz da literatura e por meio de uma análise de conteúdo, uma coleta de artigosde jornais locais e internacionais sobre os principais eventos relacionados ao projeto,ocorridos pouco antes, durante e depois dos Jogos Olímpicos. No total, foramidentificados doze eventos relacionados ao projeto. O quadro mais amplo degerenciamento deste projeto é apoiado por uma breve descrição da governança do projetoRio 2016. Por fim, o trabalho conclui com o apelo de ampliar a pesquisa académica sobrea complexidade dos Jogos Olímpicos, pois há uma falta de capacidade explicativa parauma avaliação dos principais empreendimentos conceituais deste megaprojeto. Isto devidoao motivo de os eventos gerenciados pelos atores terem acabado por ser explicados porquatro dimensões do megaprojeto: O impacto político, o impacto estético, o impactoeconómico e o impacto tecnológico.
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Hasan, Umair. "Development of a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Framework for Sustainable Road Transport Systems: Integrating Stakeholder-Cost-Environment-Energy Lifecycle Impacts." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79325.
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An MCDM framework is developed, unifying quantitative (empirical models) and qualitative (stakeholder) data for sustainability assessment of road transport systems. Highway case study data from Abu Dhabi is used to test the framework for 2015-2045 service life. Results showed that an autonomous vehicle-based bus rapid transit service in conjunction with recycled materials (warm-mix RAP, construction waste and slag) for roadworks reduced lifecycle cost (51%), energy (56%) and pollutant (55% CO2eq., 50% NOx, 24% PM) burdens.
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Kentzingen, Raphael. "The Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro : project : related events and their political, aesthetical, economic and technological impacts on the main project actors." Master's thesis, reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22362.
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This study is concerned on Rio 2016 megaproject management undertaken by theprincipal project actors: The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the OrganisingCommittee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) and the Brazilian Government. Firstly, anintroduction into megaprojects precedes the explanation of two intrinsically linkedconcepts, Complexity and Risk Management. Only after that fundamental portrayal twowidely adopted theories in Megaproject research will be reviewed, namely Stakeholdertheory and Institutional theory. In light of the literature and by means of a content analysisto local and international newspapers articles, the main project related events thatoccurred shortly before, during and after the Olympic Games were extracted andcategorized. In total, twelve project related events were identified. The broader projectmanagement picture related to those issue is supported by a brief description of Rio 2016´s project governance. Finally, the paper finishes with the appeal to widen up theacademic research on the complexity of the Olympic Games as there is a lackingexplanatory and evaluative capability of the aforementioned theories in assessing the mainconceptual undertakings of such a particular megaproject. After all, the unexpected issuesthat the abovementioned actors had to manage are best described by four impactingmegaproject dimensions: The political impact, the aesthetic impact, the economic impactand the technological impact.
Este estudo tem como foco a gestão do megaprojeto Rio 2016 realizada pelos principaisatores do projeto: o Comitê Olímpico Internacional, o Comitê Organizador dos JogosOlímpicos e o Governo Brasileiro. Em primeiro lugar, uma introdução em megaprojectosprecede a explicação de dois conceitos intrinsecamente ligados, Complexidade e Gestãode Risco. Somente após esse retrato fundamental, duas teorias extensamente adotadas napesquisa do megaprojeto serão revistas: Teoria do Stakeholder e Teoria Institucional.Segue, em luz da literatura e por meio de uma análise de conteúdo, uma coleta de artigosde jornais locais e internacionais sobre os principais eventos relacionados ao projeto,ocorridos pouco antes, durante e depois dos Jogos Olímpicos. No total, foramidentificados doze eventos relacionados ao projeto. O quadro mais amplo degerenciamento deste projeto é apoiado por uma breve descrição da governança do projetoRio 2016. Por fim, o trabalho conclui com o apelo de ampliar a pesquisa académica sobrea complexidade dos Jogos Olímpicos, pois há uma falta de capacidade explicativa parauma avaliação dos principais empreendimentos conceituais deste megaprojeto. Isto devidoao motivo de os eventos gerenciados pelos atores terem acabado por ser explicados porquatro dimensões do megaprojeto: O impacto político, o impacto estético, o impactoeconómico e o impacto tecnológico.
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Cerialo, Kelly L. "The Social Impacts of Tourism in the UNESCO Champlain Adirondack Biosphere Reserve (USA)." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1624962732741684.
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Hahn, Sejin, and Sarafat Hossain. "Impacts of COVID-19: Funding Business Operations and Adapting Marketing Strategies." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185101.
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Purpose -- Given the enduring COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis set out to reveal an updated perspective of the service-oriented small business experience, particularly in their access and choice of financial resources to fund operations and adapt marketing strategy. By the time this study started, it was clear which businesses had been rising with the new tides of swelled categorical demand vs. those that were persevering like embers in a 'slow burn' state of low income against persistent expenses. Therefore, the research sought to compare the results of marketing experimentation with current plans for increasing resiliency, or enabling robust growth, coming out of the pandemic. Methodology / Design / Approach -- As the quantitative understanding of the business impacts had been generalized, a closer look was needed into what entrepreneurs and small business leaders were thinking about in the present moment, by reflecting on factors for survival / thriving, until this point and going forward. To capture this wide range of perspectives and strategies in formulation, qualitative methods with a diverse set of businesses were selected. Theoretically, customer-centric marketing principles were employed, focusing on three intangible firm resources (of the resource-based view): 1) Stakeholder Relationships; 2) Brand Equity and 3) Knowledge / Capabilities. Findings -- With the realization that adequate financing is inaccessible and government support perceivably unreliable, small businesses naturally tested several emergent strategies within the limits of their available resources. During times of crisis and radical change, as entire industry ecosystems are reassuming their fundamentals, companies have the opportunity to maximize and develop their resources, in alignment with differing and changing customer demands. Practical Implications -- While the recommendations are tailored for small business and optimistically many, cities are also suggested to take a resource-based VRIO (Value, Rarity, Imitability and Organizability) approach to supporting the economic value and potential of their retail, restaurant and service-oriented business communities. Originality / Value -- Applying a modern customer-centric view for the small business resources most potentially valuable and developable, this research contributes a unique crisis-borne framework, which may be conceptually used as a hotbed -- by both internal and external (i.e. municipalities, partners and customers) stakeholders -- for ideating novel marketing strategies and supporting business growth / resilience. Keywords: Adaptation, Crisis Management, Financial Liquidity, Access to Capital, Government Aid, Alternative Finance, Marketing Strategy, Resource-based View (RBV), Customer-Centric, Stakeholder View, Brand, Authenticity, Knowledge, Capabilities, Marketing Management, Marketing-Finance Interface, Paid Marketing, Organic Marketing, Customer Loyalty, Community and Decision-Making
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Winther, Hedvig. "Climate change impacts on water resources of the Ganges : Suitable adaptation options for agriculture in the Indian-Himalayan region." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210761.
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Climate change is affecting several environmental factors and together with socio-economic changes put high pressure on water resources. Climate change manifest itself through increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns and intensities, with knock-on effects on hydrologically-relevant parameters such as water flows, evapotranspiration rates, glacial melt etcetera, all of which have already been observed in the recent past and are predicted to continue in the future. India has the world’s second largest population. The majority of the population live in rural areas and are dependent on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fishery. The Indian-Himalayan region supplies 600 million people with water, thus future climate change impacts on the hydrological cycle in the area are of great interest and concern. In order to cope with these predicted impacts, there is a need to adapt to the changing climate. This study combines data analyses from a hydro-climatic modelling campaign (carried out externally to this thesis), a literature review on climate change effects on agriculture and opportunities to adapt to these effects and participatory methods bringing stakeholders and scientists together in order to co-create adaptation options that are suitable to minimise short- and long-term climate change impacts on the water flows of the Ganges and hence agriculture in the region. The study concentrates on two districts in the Indo-Gangetic Plain that are characterised by their high dependency on the farming sector: Uttarkashi (upstream Ganges, Uttarakhand) and Patna (downstream Ganges, Bihar). The analysis of hydro-climatic data based on a modelling campaign focussed on three climate variables that are of significance for agriculture: precipitation, temperature, and evapotranspiration. To characterise future climates, four climate change projections based on IPCC’s representative concentrations pathways (RCPs) have been chosen: RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, RCP 6.0, and RCP 8.5. The impacts of these scenarios on the above listed three climate variables are analysed over three time periods: 2011-2040, 2041-2070, and 2071-2100, with a special focus on the monsoon months from June to October, as this is the main crop (rice) growing season. The results from the hydro-climatic modelling indicate that the maximum, minimum, and average temperature will be increasing over the next century in both districts. An increase in evapotranspiration can be seen for both districts, with a few exceptions for RCP scenarios 2.6, 6.0 and 8.5 in April and May in Patna, and for all RCP scenarios in April, May and June in Uttarkashi. An increase in maximum and average precipitation can be seen for most RCP scenarios and future time periods (e.g. of exceptions in average precipitation: RCP 4.5 and 8.5 in June and July in the period 2011-2040) during the monsoon period in Patna. Similarly, in Uttarkashi maximum and average precipitation increases for all three time periods and RCP scenarios during the monsoon months of September and August (only for RCP scenarios 2.6 and 8.5). For the remaining months, the precipitation patterns show great variability for all scenarios and both regions. The literature review resulted in a table of adaptation options, where nine out of 63 were considered as transformational adaptation, and enabled identification of possible climate change impacts on agriculture in the two districts. The minimum temperature could result in more severe and intense hailstorms in the future for both districts. The increase in temperature could lead to a prolonged growing season in Uttarkashi, whilst the increase in average and maximum temperature in Patna could lead to heat-stress for the crops. Furthermore, the increase in average and maximum precipitation could lead to more severe and intense natural disasters e.g. landslides in Uttarkashi and floods in Patna. Moreover, the increase in average evapotranspiration combined with the decrease in average precipitation during some months could lead to an increasing need of irrigation. Two workshops were held in the region with the aim to bring together researchers and stakeholders (e.g. famers) in order to jointly discuss 1) the suitability of hydrological modelling data for preparing the agriculture sector to a changing climate, and 2) suggest suitable adaptation options based on researchers’ and stakeholders’ knowledge and experience. Information from the first workshop was obtained by a workshop report, whilst information from the second workshop was obtained from the author’s own participation. The result from the workshop showed that the farmers had several suggestions of suitable adaptation options e.g. implementation of irrigation system and improved access to credit. It also showed that the farmers already adapted to climate change e.g. usage of short- and long duration variations of rice and sowing date adjustment. The combination of these results informed the suggestions for adaptation options for the two districts, namely the development of disaster reduction plans and early warning systems for weather extremes, as well as a diversification of agriculture and more generally livelihoods. In addition, indirect adaptation measures suggested for both districts included insurance schemes against yield failure, improved access to credit schemes, and right/fair market prices. Specific measures for each district were also suggested e.g. heat-tolerant crops in Patna and implementation or irrigation systems in Uttarkashi.Klimatförändringarna påverkar åtskilliga miljöfaktorer och tillsammans med socioekonomiska förändringar sätter de stort tryck på vattenresurser. Klimatförändringar manifesterar sig i stigande temperaturer och ändrade nederbördsmönster och nederbördsintensitet, med påföljande effekter på hydrologiskt relevanta parametrar så som vattenflöden, evapotranspirationsvärden, smältande glaciärer etcetera, vilka alla är effekter som redan observerats och är förutspådda att fortsätta under innevarande århundrande. Befolkningen i Indien är näst störst i världen. Större delen av befolkningen i Indien bor på landsbygden och är beroende av klimatkänsliga sektorer så som jordbruk, fiske och skogsbruk. Indiska Himalaya förser 600 miljoner människor med vatten, framtida effekter på den hydrologiska cykeln, orsakade av klimatförändringarna i området, är därför av största intresse. För att kunna hantera de framtida effekterna orsakade av klimatförändringarna är det viktigt att implementera klimatanpassningsstrategier. Den här studien kombinerar data analyser från en hydro-klimatisk modelleringskampanj (som är genomförd externt till det här arbetet), litteraturstudie över effekter på jordbruk orsakade av klimatförändringar och möjligheter att anpassa sig till dessa förändringar, samt involverar preferenser och kunskaper från intressenter inom det aktuella området för att kunna identifiera lämpliga klimatanpassningsstrategier. Studien har ett huvudfokus på klimatanpassning för jordbruksområden i två distrikt i Indien: Uttarkashi (uppströms Ganges, Uttarakhand) och Patna (nedströms Ganges, Bihar). Analysen av hydro-klimatisk data, baserad på en modelleringskampanj, fokuserar på tre klimatvariabler som är av betydelse för jordbrukssektor: nederbörd, temperatur, och evapotranspiration. För att kunna karakterisera framtida klimat har IPCCs fyra representativa koncentrationsvägar (RCPs) tagits hänsyn till: RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, RCP 6.0, och RCP 8.5. Effekterna av dessa scenarier på de tre ovan listade klimatvariablerna är analyserade över tre framtida tidsperioder: 2011-2040, 2041-2070, 2071-2100, med ett speciellt fokus på monsunperioden från juni till oktober. Resultatet från analysen av hydro-klimatisk data indikerar en ökning under århundrandet i minimal, maximal, och genomsnittlig temperatur i båda distrikten. En ökning i evapotranspiration för båda distrikten kunde också identifieras, med några få undantag för RCP 2.6, 6.0 och 8.5 i april och maj i Patna, samt för alla RCP scenarier i april, maj och juni för Uttarkashi. Trender i nederbörd visar en ökning i maximal och genomsnittlig nederbörd för nästan alla scenarier under monsunperioden i Patna (exempel på scenarier där den genomsnittliga nederbörden inte ökar är RCP 4.5 och 8.5 i juni och juli under perioden 2011-2040). En ökning i maximal och genomsnittlig nederbörd identifierades i september för alla RCP scenarier och framtidsperioder, samt i augusti för RCP 2.6 och 8.5 i Uttarkashi. Kvarvarande månader visar på stor variabilitet i nederbörd för alla scenarier i båda distrikten. Litteraturstudien resulterade i en tabell med klimatanpassningsstrategier, där nio av 63 ansågs vara transformerande, samt identifierade möjliga effekter på jordbruket i de två distrikten orsakade av klimatförändringar. Ökningen i minimal temperatur kan leda till mer allvarliga och intensifierade hagelstormar i framtiden. Temperaturökningen kan i Uttarkashi leda till förlängd odlingssäsong medan ökningen i genomsnittlig och maximal temperatur kan leda till värmestress på grödorna i Patna. Vidare gäller att ökningen i maximal och genomsnittlig nederbörd kan leda till mer allvarliga naturkatastrofer i framtiden som exempelvis jordskred i Uttarkashi och översvämningar i Patna. Ökningen i evapotranspiration kombinerat med minskningen i genomsnittlig nederbörd under vissa månader skulle kunna leda till ett ökat bevattningsbehov. Två ”worskhops” anordnades i regionen med målet att sammanföra forskare och intressenter (exempelvis bönder) för att gemensamt diskutera 1) lämpligheten av användandet av hydrologiskt modellerad data för att förbereda jordbruket på klimatförändringar, och 2) föreslå lämpliga klimatanpassningsstrategier baserat på forskarnas och intressenternas kunskap och erfarenheter. Informationen från den första workshopen erhölls genom en workshoprapport, medan informationen i den andra workshopen erhölls genom författarens eget deltagande i workshopen. Resultatet från workshopen visade på att bönderna hade flertalet egna föreslag vad gäller lämpliga klimatanpassningsstrategier så som exempelvis implementerande av bevattningssystem och ökade kreditmöjligheter. Bönderna hade även börjat anpassa sig till klimatförändringar genom exempelvis ha lång- och korttids variationer av ris samt att de hade flyttat på datumet för sådden. Kombinationen av hydro-klimatisk data, litteratur och intressentpreferenser och kunskap möjliggjorde förslag på klimatanpassningsstrategier i de två distrikten. Strategier för att reducera skador på grödor och jordbruksmark orsakade av extrema händelser, varningssystem som varnar i ett tidigt skede, och diversifiering av försörjning är direkta klimatanpassningsstrategier som identifierades för båda distrikten. Försäkringslösningar, ökade kreditmöjligheter, och ett rättvist marknadspris var indirekta anpassningsstrategier som identifierats för båda distrikten. Även specifika anpassningsstrategier för respektive distrikt har identifierats, där exempelvis värme-tåliga grödor identifierades som viktigt för Patna och implementering av bevattningssystem identifierades som extra viktigt för Uttarkashi.
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Tran, Thai Binh Thi. "Strategic fit in a dynamic industry : case studies of ASEAN-region airlines." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Poitiers, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020POIT4010.
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L'objectif de cette recherche est d'étudier les réponses stratégiques des compagnies aériennes de la région de l'Association des Nations de l'Asie du Sud-Est (ASEAN) face à la création d’un marché unique de l'aviation civile intégrant dix pays membres. Nous cherchons à aborder cette problématique en adoptant un cadre d'analyse fondé sur la transformation des capacités dynamiques d'une organisation et le modèle Environnement-Stratégie-Organisation (ESO) de Milliot (2013, 2014). Nous utilisons quatre études de cas pour explorer les actions spécifiques à envisager face aux impacts de l’environnement externe ; les cas étudiés sont ceux de Vietnam Airlines, Qatar Airways, Derry Air et NokScoot Airlines. Notre enquête empirique est fondée sur l’analyse de documents, des entretiens avec cinq cadres supérieurs des compagnies aériennes étudiées et 14 experts régionaux et internationaux de l'aviation civile. Pour valider les résultats du point de vue de la demande, une analyse par clusters en deux étapes est proposée. Elle s’appuie sur des données collectées auprès de 444 voyageurs cambodgiens et vietnamiens résidant au Cambodge, au Vietnam et dans d'autres pays qui utilisent les voies aériennes comme moyen de transport dans la région de l'ASEAN. Les résultats indiquent que les changements technologiques, les forces politiques mondiales, les forces juridiques, les gouvernements, les actionnaires, les fournisseurs, les concurrents, les distributeurs, les clients et les employés sont des attributs clés de l'environnement externe qui interagissent de manière complexe. Ces parties prenantes sont à la source des impacts les plus significatifs sur les stratégies développées par les compagnies aériennes de la région de l’ASEAN. Cette étude empirique indique que le processus d’adéquation stratégique dans l'industrie du transport aérien de l'ASEAN doit associer cinq types de stratégies, notamment une stratégie de croissance des entreprises, une stratégie d'changement interne, une stratégie de gestion des coûts, une stratégie de gestion des parties prenantes et une stratégie d'innovation technologique. Ces stratégies sont mises en œuvre et combinées pour être en adéquation avec les forces environnementales externes et faciliter l’ajustement organisationnel nécessaire pour assurer aux compagnies aériennes une meilleure compétitivitéThe objective of this research is to examine the strategic responses of air carriers in the region of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) when associating with opening up the ASEAN Single Aviation Market (ASAM) among ten member countries. We are seeking to address this matter by generating an analytical framework based on the dynamic capabilities transformation of an organization and the guidance of the Environment-Strategy-Organization (ESO) framework developed by Milliot (2013, 2014). We employ four case studies to explore specific actions against the external environmental impacts; the case studies are Vietnam Airlines, Qatar Airways, Derry Air, and NokScoot Airlines. Our empirical survey is based on the analyses of the documents, the primary interviews with five top executives of the case-studied airlines and 14 regional and international aviation experts. In order to validate results from the demanding perspective, a Two-step Cluster analysis is proposed with data collected from 444 Cambodian and Vietnamese travelers residing in Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries that use airways as a means of their transportation within ASEAN region. Results indicate that technological change, global political forces, legal forces, governments, shareholders, suppliers, competitors, distributors, customers, and employees are the key attributes of the Stakeholder environment, which depict the most significant impact on the strategies developed by ASEAN-region airlines. This empirical study indicates that the process for strategic fit in the ASEAN airline industry must involve five types of strategies including a business growth strategy, an internal improvement strategy, a cost management strategy, a stakeholder management strategy, and a technology innovation strategy. These strategies are implemented and combined to achieve a strategic fit in confronting with external environmental impacts and obtain an organizational fit to head the airline toward a better competitiveness
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Machado, Maria Elisabeth Gerardo. "Social return on investment (SROI) : uma metodologia para a medição do impacto social dos projectos e justificação dos Investimentos." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8330.
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Mestrado em Gestão de ProjetosAs Organizações do Terceiro setor têm assumido um papel cada vez mais relevante na sociedade devido a um diversificado conjunto de atividades. O seu crescimento e o grande número de projetos que desenvolvem explicam a constante necessidade de recursos financeiros para o cumprimento da sua missão que, na maioria, são obtidos junto de terceiros. A gestão por projetos é um dos métodos de trabalho adotados no Terceiro Setor. Os projetos sociais são um dos meios utilizados pelas suas organizações para a concretização da sua missão, ou seja, integram as medidas utilizadas no exercício da intervenção social profissional. O desenvolvimento de um projeto visa a introdução de mudanças, promovendo o desenvolvimento social e económico para gerar benefícios (ou impacto social). São escassos os indicadores que permitam a mensuração do retorno social para cada recurso obtido e gerido pelas Organizações do Terceiro Setor. Neste contexto, tem vindo a ser divulgada a metodologia Social Return on Investment (SROI).O rácio SROI traduz, em termos monetários, o impacto social gerado pelo desenvolvimento de um projeto. Para responder às questões de investigação levantadas neste trabalho adotou-se uma abordagem qualitativa-explanatória com o estudo de múltiplos casos, como técnica fundamental. No respeitante ao horizonte temporal, a pesquisa foi cross-sectional. Os resultados encontrados sugerem que a metodologia SROI é complementar à Gestão de Projetos, é uma ferramenta adequada e robusta para medir o retorno dos investimentos sociais e fornece informação importante para a justificação dos investimentos.
Third Sector organizations have been assuming an increasingly relevant role in society due to a diverse set of activities. Their growth and the large number of projects they develop, explain the constant need of resources to fulfill its mission, most being obtained from third parties. Management by projects is one of the work methods adopted in the Third Sector. Social projects are one of the means used by their organizations for the accomplishment of its mission, ie, integrate the measures used in the exercise of professional social intervention. The development of a project aims at introducing changes, promoting social and economic development to generate benefits (or social impact). There are few indicators for the measurement of social return for each resource obtained and managed by Third Sector Organizations. In this context, the Social Return on Investment methodology (SROI) is being divulged. The SROI ratio translates, in monetary terms, the social impact generated by the development of a project. To answer the research questions raised in this study a qualitative-explanatory approach was adopted to the study of multiple cases, as a fundamental technique. As regards the time horizon, the research was cross-sectional. The results found suggest that the SROI methodology is complementary to Project Management, is a suitable and robust tool to measure the return on social investment and provides important information for justification of investments.
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Jones, Jennifer. "Stakeholder perceptions of the Wishbone Hill Health Impact Assessment." Thesis, University of Alaska Anchorage, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1543904.
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Stakeholder engagement in a health impact assessment (HIA) is a way to involve communities in the decision-making process of a proposed project or policy. Research conducted on the proposed Wishbone Hill Coal Mine (WHM) in Alaska sought to identify if participants felt the stakeholder engagement process used in a recent HIA was able to respond to cultural differences and inequitable distribution of health impacts. Using a qualitative methodology, 12 interviews were conducted with individuals who participated in the WHM HIA. Results indicate that existing issues of trust between the general public, Alaska Native peoples, and the government impact how the findings of an HIA are received by stakeholders. Recommendations were developed from the research findings and are intended to support continued public trust in the use of HIA in the State of Alaska. Recommendations include ensuring HIA practitioner competencies when working with communities, and implementing transparent stakeholder engagement processes.
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Jones, Megan Ann. "Exploring the role of stakeholder expectations in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2397.
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The direction environmental impact assessment (EIA) takes in the future will largely depend on those engaged in the process. However different stakeholders will have diverse expectations of EIA, which can lead to conflict throughout EIA processes. This thesis is focused on the exploration of the role of stakeholder expectations in EIA processes with the purpose to make an original contribution to knowledge on how the EIA process works in practice. This thesis argues that if stakeholder expectations are not well understood, then conflicts that arise as a result of the pluralist nature of EIA cannot begin to be resolved. There may be more to expectations than has previously been considered and understanding stakeholder expectations has the potential to assist in determining the best way forward for future EIA theory and practice. This thesis is theoretically underpinned by the constructivist research paradigm, building on existing literature as a way to provide new ways of examining the role, purpose and outcomes of EIA as it relates to stakeholder expectations. An investigation of the literature identified that the nature of expectations is personalised as they are based on a belief that something should happen in a particular way, or that someone or something should have particular qualities or behaviour. When placed in the context of EIA, an expectation is a belief that EIA should happen in a particular way, or have particular qualities. The comparable area of research known as the effectiveness literature was examined to identify the particular ways or particular qualities that an EIA process should have in order to be effective. It became clear from explorations of the EIA literature that empirical research on the topic of stakeholder expectations has been limited to date, therefore an overarching conceptual framework for exploring stakeholder expectations was developed to explore stakeholder expectations of EIA via four stakeholder expectations categories: Procedural, Substantive, Transactive and Legitimacy. The range of expectations of EIA was best conceptualised as occurring along a spectrum, where one end of the spectrum reflects how EIA works (Reality) while the other reflects what EIA seeks to achieve (Ideal). The overall aim of the research was to explore the role of stakeholder expectations in EIA processes guided by the two research questions: 1. What are stakeholder expectations of EIA? 2. How do differing stakeholder expectations affect how EIA is undertaken? Drawing on an inductive methodological approach, the phased data collection analysed stakeholder expectations at the three levels of EIA: Meta level (EIA as a concept) via a World Café workshop with members of the international EIA community, Macro level (EIA at a jurisdiction level – focusing on the Western Australian System) via document analysis and surveywith members of the WA EIA community and Mirco level (individual project level – Roe Highway Stage 8 Extension) via semi-structured interviews with individuals involved in the chosen case study.
The results demonstrate the application of the stakeholder expectations framework as a useful tool in which to identify differing stakeholder expectations of EIA. This thesis presents the first study to examine and understand expectations in the context of EIA. This thesis makes an original contribution to the field of EIA including a conceptual framework for exploring stakeholder expectations along with its subsequent application to EIA practice at different scales of application. By understanding stakeholder expectations an important contribution can be made to the continued success of EIA by capturing the diverse views of different stakeholder groups to gauge where improvements require consideration to ensure that they receive real public and political endorsement
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Althonayan, Mona. "Evaluating stakeholders performance of ERP systems in Saudi Arabia higher education." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7502.
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are complex and comprehensive software packages designed to integrate business processes and functions. Despite the difficulties and risks of implementing such a system, the last decade has seen a remarkable global diffusion of such systems. To cope with technical developments, the Saudi Arabian government is starting to implement them in both private and public organisations, including the higher education (HE). HE in Saudi Arabia applies integrated solutions to replace existing systems, supporting all its business functions and improving effectiveness and efficiency. Evaluating the impact of ERP adoption on stakeholders’ performance is complex and no single existing model was considered adequate. To overcome their various weaknesses, this study integrates three models (Task Technology Fit, the Information Systems Success Model and End User Computing Satisfaction) to produce a new model which offers a comprehensive view of the most important factors affecting stakeholders’ performance. This integration results in a theoretical framework that is used as model for empirical investigations of the impact of ERP systems on HE stakeholders. The aim of this research is to assess the impact of ERP systems on Saudi academic institutions, focusing on stakeholders’ post-implementation performance. Three case studies are examined, using mixed methods of interviews and questionnaires to collect quantitative and qualitative data. SPSS 20 and analytical techniques were undertaken to analyse case studies data. While the results varied according to the circumstances of each case, the overall quantitative findings were that there were six significant factors in the system quality dimension (timeliness, flexibility, ease of use, content, currency and authorisation) and two (reliability and responsiveness) in the service quality dimension. These results were consistent with those of the qualitative phase, which identified a number of other factors having a significant impact on stakeholder performance: resistance to change, continuous training and education, appropriate systems customisation and top management support. In general, it was found that ERP systems had a significant of positive and negative nature impact on HE stakeholders’ performance and productivity in Saudi Arabia.
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Khaldi, Mohamed Ali. "Impact des mécanismes de gouvernance sur la création et la répartition de la valeur partenariale." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENG007/document.
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La multiplication des scandales financiers depuis l'an 2000 suscite des débats et des controverses sur la gouvernance des entreprises cotées en bourse. Dans le paradigme contractuel, les débats sur la gouvernance ont largement consacré la valeur actionnariale comme modèle dominant, et dans lequel les actionnaires sont les seuls créanciers résiduels. Toutefois, la théorie des parties prenantes part du principe que la relation d'agence actionnaire-dirigeant doit s'élargir aux autres partenaires intervenant dans la chaîne de valeur, et qu'il faut abandonner l'hypothèse du statut de créancier résiduel exclusif des actionnaires. Cet abandon conduit à s'interroger sur le partage de la rente organisationnelle, ou valeur partenariale créée par la firme. Plus précisément, le concept de valeur partenariale soulève les questions de sa mesure, de son appropriation par les différents partenaires, et du rôle des mécanismes de gouvernance à ce niveau. L'objectif de cette recherche est, dans un premier temps, d'examiner le rôle joué par les mécanismes de gouvernance propres à la firme (caractéristiques du conseil, structure de propriété) sur la valeur partenariale créée, puis, dans un deuxième temps, sur l'appropriation de cette valeur partenariale par la firme et par ses parties prenantes explicites. Les tests empiriques portent sur un panel de 103 sociétés françaises cotées observées sur trois années (2006, 2008 et 2010). Les résultats suggèrent que quatre mécanismes ressortent globalement positivement associés à la valeur partenariale créée : la taille et l'indépendance du conseil, le pouvoir actionnarial des salariés, et la présence d'un comité d'éthique et/ou de gouvernance (CEG). En matière d'appropriation, deux mécanismes de gouvernance semblent jouer un rôle. Premièrement, la taille du conseil permettrait aux actionnaires et aux fournisseurs de capter davantage de rente organisationnelle, au détriment des clients et de la firme elle-même. Deuxièmement, la présence d'un CEG incite à une meilleure prise en compte des intérêts de certaines parties prenantes non-financières dans le partage de la rente (clients, salariés), alors que la part de rente que s'approprient les apporteurs de capitaux financiers (actionnaires et créanciers) diminue. Dans l'ensemble, nos résultats concernant la mise en place d'un CEG s'avèrent encourageant quant à la capacité de ce mécanisme à promouvoir une véritable gouvernance partenariale au sein des firmes cotéesThe multiplication of financial scandals since year 2000 induced debates and controversies about the governance of public companies. In the contracting paradigm, the debates on corporate governance have largely relied on shareholder value as a dominant model, in which shareholders are the only residual claimants. However, the stakeholder theory builds on the principle that the shareholder-manager agency relationship has to widen to the others stakeholders who intervene in the value creation chain, and that it is necessary to get rid of the hypothesis that shareholders are exclusive residual claimants. This move brings questions about the sharing of the organizational rent, or stakeholder value created by the firm. More specifically, the concept of stakeholder value raises questions about its measurement, its appropriation by the various stakeholders, and about the role of corporate governance mechanisms on that ground. The objective of this research is to investigate the role of firm-specific governance mechanisms (board characteristics, ownership structure) on the creation of stakeholder value on the one hand, and on the distribution of that stakeholder value to the firm and to its explicit stakeholders, on the other hand. Empirical tests are based on a panel of 103 French listed companies observed over three years (2006, 2008, and 2010). The main findings suggest that four mechanisms stand out globally positively associated to the stakeholder value created: board size and board independence, employees' voting rights (shareholder power), and the presence of an Ethics and/or Governance Committee (EGC). In terms of appropriation, two governance mechanisms seem to play a role. Firstly, board size would result in a larger part of the organizational rent captured by shareholders and suppliers, at the expense of customers and the firm itself. Secondly, the presence of an EGC results in a better consideration of the interests of some non-financial stakeholders (customers and employees), whereas the share of rent that is appropriated by financial capital providers (shareholders and debt-holders) decreases. Overall, our results concerning the implementation of an EGC turn out encouraging regarding the capacity of such mechanism to promote effective stakeholder governance within listed companies
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Nguyen, Giang, and Ana Aguilera. "Key Stakeholders' Impacts on the Implementation Phase of International Development Projects : Case Studies." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-31280.
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ID projects are characterized by a complex network of stakeholders that often lead to the tangledrelationships among various parties. Different stakeholders therefore can exert the influence overan ID project in different ways resulting in both constructive and counter-productive impacts tothe projects. The implementation stage, in many ways, is considered the most significantlyimportant phase in the project life cycle where all the project activities are materialized. Thus,understanding the intricacy of the stakeholders’ impacts to the project implementation is criticalto facilitate the project results.
A multiple-case study of the two ID projects executed in Vietnam is undertaken with the aim toinvestigate the impacts of the key stakeholders on ID projects beyond the early phases of IDproject life cycle, focusing in particular on the implementation phase. In order to have the wholepicture of the key stakeholders’ impacts to the project implementation, this research alsoexplores the contributing factors of the identified impacts as well as examines how powerful thekey stakeholders are in controlling the decisions making and/or facilitating the projecti mplementation represented through their different degrees of influence.
Results of the findings suggest both similarities and differences in which the reported impacts ofthe key stakeholders tend to be more counter-productive than constructive to the projectimplementation. The similarities of the findings indicate that the two distinctive projects facecommon issues in the implementation phase whilst the differences can be explained by thespecific circumstances that surround the projects. The representation of the counter-productiveaspects in the findings signify the risks associated with the key stakeholders which is worth while considering in terms of the risk mitigation in the implementation phase of an ID project.
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Ongarelli, Laura <1995>. "The impacts of Corporate Volunteering on stakeholders’ perceptions, attitudes, and behavior." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18727.
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Within the broad Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) realm, Corporate Volunteering (CV) is increasingly gaining momentum as a way for firms to put their CSR strategy into practice and generate a positive societal impact. The aim of the present work is to investigate, from a company’s point of view, the influence of CV initiatives on stakeholders’ perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. Based on Gioia et al.’s (2013) method, the concepts emerging from the interviews with three managers of a multinational corporation in the fashion industry and the relational dynamics among them are presented by means of a theoretical process model.
The main research question is derived from the research gap in the CV literature, determined by comparing the existing knowledge about CSR and CV. The study shows CV to positively impact customer loyalty, purchase intentions, and word-of-mouth, to enhance firm image, attractiveness, and differentiation, and to facilitate partners and firm progress, along with the creation of win-win relationships within communities and of an improved competitive context. These results are partially mediated by the external communication of the CV initiatives. The findings also reveal a moderating effect of the support for CV, the degree of awareness about CV, the perceived authenticity of CV efforts, and the coherence between the latter and firm values.
Finally, theoretical and managerial implications are discussed, and several conclusions are drawn.
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Abdul, Kamilah Hamza. "Inovação social corporativa : estudo de caso EDP." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16598.
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Mestrado em Gestão e Estratégia IndustrialA Inovação Social Corporativa (ISC) é um tema resultante na aposta das empresas na Sustentabilidade e na Responsabilidade Social. O presente estudo aborda a evolução do tema ISC e como são medidos os impactos dos projetos desta natureza: impactos económicos e impactos sociais. Ambas as tipologias são analisadas num contexto de negócio e num contexto social. O estudo de caso EDP permite avaliar um projeto de ISC, titulado como Junto à Terra (JaT) cujo objetivo é a educação para a sustentabilidade como forma de retenção populacional. Através do Business Model Canvas é feita a análise de modelo de negócio e posteriormente uma análise aos inputs, outputs e preocupação em medir os impactos. A presente investigação permitiu concluir que existem vários termos para ISC e que dado contexto de competitividade atual é uma forma estratégica de marcar um posicionamento ou expandir os mercados, através da resolução de um problema social. A EDP é uma empresa com elevada Responsabilidade Social (RS) e define como umas das suas prioridades a medição dos impactos, sejam sociais, organizacionais e de negócio. A ferramenta utilizada é o London Benchmarking Group (LBG) e a estratégia passa pela criação e adoção de macro indicadores que espelhem a realidade. O JaT insere-se num dos objetivos da Política Investimento Social da EDP e dado a estratégia inerente, a dimensão do projeto pelo número de stakeholders e abrangência territorial, o elevado investimento e a escalabilidade, cumpre com os critérios para a medição de impactos.
Corporate Social Innovation (CSI) results of the commitment to Sustainability and Social Responsability (SR). The present study focus on the course of CSI and how the impacts are measured: economic and social impacts. Both are analysed in business and social contexts. The case study is about EDP and the project is Junto à Terra (JaT). JaT is a project that the objective is to educate to sustainability as a form of prevent the rural depopulation. Applying Business Model Canvas is analyzed the business model, and then the inputs, outputs and the concern about measuring impacts. This study allows to conclude that there are several definitons about CSI and according to market competitivess panorama, could be a strategical way for an approach to a new market or even to establish a position, by solving a social problema. EDP is a company with high SR and one of the priorities is measuring social, business and corporate impacts. The method used is London Benchmarking Group (LBG) and now the path is working in macro indicators. According, to EDP's Social Investment Policy, the dimension of the project, by the number os stakeholders and the size of the demographic area, the investiment and the potencial to implement in other regions are the criterias that determinate that JaT should be submited to an impacts assessment.
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Androshchuk, D., Ilona Tsarenko, and І. О. Царенко. "Impact of stakeholders on the process of management the enterprise." Thesis, КНТУ, 2016. http://dspace.kntu.kr.ua/jspui/handle/123456789/4501.
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Metin, Hulya. "Social And Institutional Impacts Of Mersin Regional Innovation Strategy: Stakeholders'." Thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611821/index.pdf.
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This study explores the Regional Innovation System (RIS) approach which is an efficient policy tool for the achievement of regional development in the global competition environment and aims to evaluate the social and institutional gains of Mersin RIS following the implementation of Mersin Regional Innovation Strategy (RIStr). An analysis of Mersin RIStr, which is the first and the only RIStr of Turkey, has been taken as a case study. Mersin RIStr, as being a project supported in the context of European Union 6. Framework program, aims to improve the regional innovation infrastructure and capacity of Mersin. RIS is not only technological but is also a social process and accordingly requires intense regional interaction networks. In this context, the impact of RIStr on the improvement of RIS in Mersin has been evaluated through the determinants of new institutional structures, improvements in lobor market conditions, newly occured cooperation networks and newly produced project-products-services-skills. Indepth interview method has been used for the survey. Interviews were carried out with the stakeholders of strategy project. Throughout the survey, gains of the region in general terms and gains of the specified leading sectorsi.e. tourism, logistic and agro-food, have been evaluated from the perspective of stakeholders. Social and institutional achievements of Mersin RIS have been evaluated in detail with the aim of presenting the effectiveness and weaknesses of strategy as being a new model case for the other regions in Turkey.
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Machisa, Patience. "Multiple stakeholders’ perceptions of the impacts of a carnival in Cape Town." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2750.
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Thesis (MTech (Tourism and Hospitality Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.Carnival events have become significant factors in tourism development and marketing initiatives of most destinations. The developments, in threefold, economic, socio-cultural and environmental experienced by host communities of tourism attractions and resorts result in the emergence of carnival events as critical destination products. The current research found that the selected stakeholders, particularly residents, businesses and event attendees’ perceptions are often overlooked although they are directly impacted by carnival events, especially when they reside (for residents and businesses) in close proximity to the event location. In addition, tourism businesses operating in the Green Point area, the place where the carnival parade takes place, were included in this study to ascertain their views about the Cape Town Carnival. In most cases, successful carnival events are underpinned by community support as well as the visitors or attendees to the event; therefore, it is crucial to examine stakeholders’ perceptions towards such events. The aim of this study was to determine how selected stakeholders (residents, businesses, and event attendees) perceive an annual cultural event, the Cape Town Carnival, hosted in a Cape Town suburb. It also sought to establish the overall value of this event following a triple bottom-line approach (economic, socio-cultural, and environmental). This investigation explored the perceptions and experiences of the residents, businesses, and event attendees in Green Point in relation to the carnival, as well as highlighting the positive and negative aspects of their experience. The research primarily adopted quantitative research approach by using three survey questionnaires (residents, businesses and event attendees) with both closed and open-ended questions. The data were analysed using SPSS version 24 and the findings were visually presented by the use of frequency tables and charts. The general findings indicated that the selected stakeholders were in favour of the Cape Town Carnival to continue being hosted in the Green Point area, although there were some issues that were viewed as the negative impacts of hosting this event. The study’s findings show that the event is perceived positively by the stakeholders even though some had reservations to the idea of the event continuing in the area. Community involvement and enhancing safety and security during event period were some of the recommendations that could see the event continuing flawlessly. The study notes the importance of event organisers to understand the three stakeholders since they contribute to the success of the event. However, even though there are many benefits that are likely to accrue to residents, businesses and event attendees associated with hosting an event of this magnitude, one should not overlook the negative impacts that are potentially connected to such a hosting since this informs how the stakeholders perceive the event.
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Diederichs, Stefan [Verfasser], and Arno [Akademischer Betreuer] Frühwald. "Empowering Woodworking Industry Stakeholders to Reduce Environmental Impacts / Stefan Diederichs. Betreuer: Arno Frühwald." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1073970353/34.
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Zakaria, Zarina. "Stakeholder engagement in waste management : understanding the process and its impact on accountability." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12951/.
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This thesis examines the operationalisation of stakeholder engagement process in sustainable waste management setting. The study aims to establish role of stakeholder power in the prioritisation process and add to empirical understanding of the way engagement affect accountability, which evaluates both the `process', and the `outcome' of engagement. This research is based on a three mini cases of local government authorities, which involve in-depth interviews, observations and document analysis. A broader insights of the engagement process from several stakeholder groups, namely the residents, NGOs, councillors and private waste contractors, are considered and compared with managerial views, and several aspects of stakeholder engagement practices are analysed, including the mechanisms used as well as the challenges faced by the LGAs in engaging. In addition, the intentions behind engagement undertakings are analysed and evaluation of the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement practices are made. Drawing on stakeholder theory, the role of power is explored as a stakeholder attribute in determining salience and in the engagement process. Insights from the interviewees are analysed in relation to the extent of participation and perceived level of power held which are then used to map the extent of their involvement on the ladder of engagement. The findings indicate that power does play an important role in the engagement process. Managers also give greater consideration to those demonstrating certain extent of power i.e. the private waste contractor and councillors. It has also been proved that managers' perceptions of the levels of power held by stakeholders play a significant role in establishing their priorities and deciding between competing interests. The use of stakeholder engagement as a mechanism for accountability has led to the recognition of a deficiency underlying the many processes of engagement. The study also has identified an additional feature of accountability, namely the interactive nature of engagement, which is unrecognised in other established measures of accountability.
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Schindler, Jana. "Sustainability impact assessment for improved food security. The benefit of local stakeholder participation." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18000.
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Die Ernährungssicherung der Bevölkerung im ländlichen Raum in Sub-Sahara Afrika ist eine der dringlichsten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Der Großteil der Bevölkerung ist von der eigenen landwirtschaftlichen Produktion für die Ernährung und die Existenzsicherung abhängig. Eine nachhaltige Entwicklung kleinbäuerlicher Landwirtschaft ist daher eine Grundvoraussetzung für Ernährungssicherung und Armutsbekämpfung. Eine Vielzahl von Entwicklungsmaßnahmen zielt auf die Verbesserung der Agrarproduktion von Kleinbauern und Kleinbäuerinnen ab, um die Ernährungssituation zu verbessern. Die Konsequenzen dieser Entwicklungsmaßnahmen sind oft vielfältig; neben gewollten, intendierten Wirkungen, können sich Entwicklungsmaßnahmen auch negativ auswirken. Daher ist es essentiell ein ex-ante impact assessment vor der Umsetzung durchzuführen, um eventuelle negative Auswirkungen frühzeitig zu identifizieren und die geplanten Maßnahmen dementsprechend anzupassen.
Der theoretische Diskurs hinsichtlich der Charakteristika von ex-ante sustainability impact assessment ist sehr umfassend erarbeitet. Hier werden vor allem die gleichwertige Integration der drei Nachhaltigkeitsdimensionen (Soziales, Wirtschaft und Ökologie), die aktive Partizipation verschiedener Stakeholder auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen und der Austausch- und Lernprozess in den Mittelpunkt gerückt. In der Praxis wird die lokale Bevölkerung hingegen selten in ex-ante Wirkungsanalysen von geplanten Entwicklungsmaßnahmen involviert. Auch wenn in sustainability impact assessment ein interaktiver Einbezug der lokalen Bevölkerung unterstrichen wird, existieren kaum einfach anwendbare methodische Vorgehensweisen, um dies durchzuführen. Zudem gibt es bisher nur wenige Fallstudien, die das Einbeziehen von lokalen Stakeholdern beschreiben, systematisch analysieren und den Mehrwert für die Planung von landwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsmaßnahmen herausstellen. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel diese Forschungslücke zu schließen. Im Rahmen der Dissertation wurde ein methodischer Ansatz für ein ex-ante sustainability impact assessment für die Anwendung mit der lokalen Bevölkerung entwickelt. Diese Methode wurde angewendet, um die positiven und negativen Auswirkungen von geplanten landwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsmaßnahmen aus Sicht der Kleinbauern und Kleinbäuerinnen zu analysieren. Die Forschung wurde in vier Dörfern im semi-ariden Dodoma und im semi-humiden Morogoro in Tansania durchgeführt.Food security remains a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable agricultural development is fundamental for food security and poverty alleviation, notably in developing countries. Many development initiatives focus on enhancing smallholder production because the majority of poor people in developing countries live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood. However, the consequences of these development initiatives are often diverse, having intended effects as well as unforeseen adverse impacts. Therefore, there is a need to assess development strategies/projects prior to their implementation to reduce the risk of possible negative impacts and to allow for adjustments, if necessary. This can be achieved by applying ex-ante sustainability impact assessment. The theoretical discourse on ex-ante sustainability impact assessment is comprehensive, emphasising the equal integration of all three sustainability dimensions (social, economic and environmental), the active involvement of stakeholders at every step of the assessment process and a focus on exchange and learning among the involved stakeholders. In practice, local communities are rarely involved in ex-ante impact assessment. Moreover, despite a strong emphasis on their involvement in theory, there remains a lack of easily applicable frameworks for sustainability impact assessment. Hence, there are only few concrete case studies having analysed the value added by applying sustainability impact assessment with local stakeholders and its benefit for planning agricultural measures to enhance food security and sustainable development. This PhD thesis closes the gap by developing and applying an ex-ante impact assessment approach that is based upon the Framework for Participatory Impact Assessment (FoPIA) method and is applicable at small-scale farmer level in the development context. The framework was applied to assess the sustainability of upgrading strategies along the farmers’ food value chains to improve food security in rural Tanzania at four contrasting case study villages in the semi-arid Dodoma Region and the semi-humid Morogoro Region.
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Agbanu, Samuel Kwami. "The impact of stakeholder collaboration on effectiveness of health program implementation in Ghana." ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/782.
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Healthcare providers increasingly recognize the importance of collaboration among stakeholders in cost-effective healthcare delivery. While collaborative relationships offer great advantages, little research has addressed their relevance in an international development aid context, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The region is a major recipient of international development support, yet health indicators on HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and child and maternal mortality indicate the health of the region is among the weakest worldwide. This sequential mixed method, descriptive study of a USAID-funded community health program in Ghana examined the nature of collaboration among six stakeholders and impact of this collaboration on effectiveness of program implementation. Stakeholder and resource dependence theories provided conceptual frameworks for analysis. Data were collected through surveys and interviews of officers of participating organizations (POs) and community health officers (CHOs). Surveys were analyzed using means, standard deviations, and t tests, while coding and themes determination were adopted for the interview data analysis. Results from both sources were integrated. Findings indicate both POs and CHOs perceived human relationship factors as more critical than physical resources. Collaboration, shared decision making, and frequency of communication in the relationship were perceived to substantially improve CHO skills and rural healthcare quality. Recommendations include active development of strong trust and dialogue in future relationships. These results could have important implications for positive social change by identifying the bases for collaborative success in providing impoverished rural communities with cost-effective and quality healthcare to address critical community health needs.
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Jackson, Maxwell Thomas. "An Investigation of How Customary Nyungar Practices Can Impact Stakeholder Relationships with Industry." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77725.
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Relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are based on historical roles and avoidance of ownership for past and current deeds. This thesis uses personal and professional positioning to examine ways to develop more effective relationships by identifying how the principles and values that guide Indigenous stakeholders influence business engagement. Business can play a constructive role towards future Indigenous stakeholder relationships by listening to and acting on the feedback given by local Elders’ in this study.
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Forsgren, Alexander, and Lucas Haskell. "The impact of corporate social responsibility on intrinsic and extrinsic employee motivation : A mixed-method study of Sodexo." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-104945.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a subject that has gained more attention over the last two decades, and it is seen today as an integral part of the core strategy of many companies. The subject often involves a balancing act between many stakeholder interests, where employees often are mentioned as a main stakeholder group. The primary purpose of this degree project is to get a deeper understanding of managers’ perceptions of CSR’s impact on intrinsic and extrinsic employee motivation. Furthermore, this study fills the purpose of investigating perceptions about the effect of different CSR activities on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The study was conducted with the Swedish branch of Sodexo. Sodexo is globally considered a world leader in the service industry with over 419 000 employees in 80 countries, known for their well-developed and effective CSRwork. Current literature regarding CSR on the micro level (individual level and employee level) is still in an early stage which helped us to recognize a research gap. Similar studies to ours have not been concerned with getting a deeper understanding of the manager’s perceptions of CSR’s impact on employee motivation. This study was conducted using a mixed-method, which means that it consists of a qualitative part and a quantitative part where we discover how CSR activities towards employees, suppliers, the community, shareholders and customers affects employees’ extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. In the qualitative study, we conducted eight semi-structured interviews with managers from different departments and different hierarchical levels of Sodexo. These interviews helped us to gain a better understanding of how managers perceive the impact of CSR on employee motivation, and how they value the effect of different CSR activities on employee motivation. We used a thematic network analysis in order to interpret the results, which generated five themes: communication, strategic planning, diversity, working environment, and stakeholders. Our results demonstrated that managers perceived CSR activities towards the employees, the local community, and customers as intrinsic motivators. Also, Sodexo’s managers considered CSR activities towards employees and the local community as extrinsic motivators. However, interviewees disregarded CSR activities towards shareholders as a motivator towards the employees. Lastly, we received mixed-results regarding their perceptions of how CSR activities towards suppliers affected their employees’ motivation. For the quantitative part of our study, we surveyed employees at Sodexo in order to understand what motivates them. We used a multiple regression analysis which showed that CSR activities towards employees, shareholders, and customers positively impacts the intrinsic motivation of employees. Also, we discovered that CSR activities towards employees positively impacts the extrinsic motivation amongst employees. We argue that our findings indicate that CSR is a useful tool for increasing employee motivation, and thereby can lead to long-term competitive advantage. When comparing the results of our quantitative and qualitative studies through triangulation, one can see that there is perceptional differences and similarities between managers and employees. Our findings suggest that managers have the same perceptions as their employees regarding the effect of CSR activities conducted towards customers and employees on employee motivation. Also, our findings reveal a perceptual mismatch between managers and employees regarding the effects of employee motivation in regards to CSR activities conducted towards the community and shareholders
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Cittone, Marc. "Contributions of stakeholder-based watershed initiatives in mining-impacted watersheds in Colorado." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433463.
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Ismayilov, Elvin, and Rajput Masood Salman Meo. "The impact of corporate social responsibility on short-term profitability." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-150192.
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Every actor of the society has its own expectations about the companies. Shareholders are interested in the maximization of the profitability, managers are interested in sustainability, and partners are interested in fulfilment of the business ethics. And the company with well-structured CSR policy should be able to meet expectations of all stakeholders. This can cost large part of the company's resources. It can potentially impact on company’s profitability whether positively or negatively. Using the quantitative research method we tried to explore the impact of CSR policy on the short-term profitability. Our research question is composed as:What is the relationship between CSR and short-term profitability?The main purpose of this study is to analyze and present positive or negative links between CSR policy and corporate financial performance (CFP) using different profitability indicators. We analyzed impact of weighted average CSR score and environmental rank on the short-term profitability.The theoretical framework of the thesis consists of different theories, such as stakeholder theory, shareholder theory, agency theory, legitimacy theory and etc.The research conducted in accordance with the functionalist research paradigm, the objectivist ontological and positivist epistemic research philosophies using the deductive approach. Our result indicates that there negative relationship between CSR performance and short-term profitability. Also we found that CSR policy can negatively impact on return on assets. This in turn could have negative implications on shareholders and stakeholders. No positive correlation between CSR policy and profitability observed. All in all, the expenses on CSR policy have a negative impact on indicators of financial performance.
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Asel, Johannes, Arthur Posch, and Gerhard Speckbacher. "Squeezing or cuddling? The impact of economic crises on management control and stakeholder management." Springer Verlag, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11846-010-0051-4.
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This paper analyzes the effects of economic crises on firms' use of management control mechanisms and on their management of stakeholder relations. Moreover, the association between stakeholder management and management control system use is analyzed. In the wake of the economic crisis of 2008/2009, many firms were faced with severe threats that called for immediate short-term action to ensure firm survival. However, short-term action like massive cost-cutting and cash generation often are blamed for going at the expense of long-term health as key stakeholder relations may be irreversibly harmed. Hence, three interrelated questions are addressed theoretically and empirically: First, we analyze the impact of the recent economic crisis on firms' control strategies. More specifically, we investigate whether a high crisis impact on firms is associated with a shortening of reporting cycles, a more interactive use of control-relevant information, restriction of employee autonomy and a focus on liquidity and cost-cutting. Second, we examine from the viewpoint of stakeholder theory how firms can make use of active stakeholder management for crisis management. Third, we explore whether firms can take short-term measures for ensuring liquidity and cutting costs and at the same time pursue a stakeholder strategy aiming at the long-term survival of the firm. Using survey data from 204 major Austrian corporations, we provide evidence that firms significantly adjusted their control systems as a response to the economic crisis. Our data do not indicate an immanent contradiction between a "short-term finance focus" and the pursuit of a sustainable stakeholder strategy.
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Alexander, Karen. "Offshore power production and marine stakeholders : from understanding conflict to impact mitigation." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2012. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/offshore-power-production-and-marine-stakeholders(92df071b-42b0-4d65-a4b4-798d4300169b).html.
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Little is known about the impact of marine renewable energy installations upon the marine environment and those who use it. Harnessing marine energy will involve the offshore siting of energy extraction devices and their associated infrastructure. This will alter the local environment and substantially modify use and access for a variety of marine stakeholders, potentially leading to conflict. Using the Ecosystem Approach (EA) as a conceptual framework, this thesis aimed to answer the question: What is the potential for conflict between the marine renewable energy industry and marine stakeholders, and how can this be mitigated? The research consisted of three components which used a variety of methods: i) stakeholder identification through a review of the literature and use of a novel interactive mapping method; ii) an investigation of the potential consequences for the priority stakeholder which used a mail survey and in-depth interviews; and iii) an exploration of potential mitigation which used ecosystem modelling. The stakeholder most likely to be affected by marine renewable energy device (MRED) deployment was the fishing industry. Potential consequences included: navigation and safety hazards, loss of access and alternative employment. Further exploration revealed that a loss of livelihood was the all-encompassing concern for fishers, and that skills shortages (transferable skills) may mean that should a loss of livelihood occur there may not be acceptable alternative employment. The modelling exercise indicated that it is not currently possible to definitively predict whether any opportunities which may be created by MRED installation will mitigate any negative effects, and that exclusion zones may actually decrease catches for most fleets. The findings of this study have implications for ‘conflict-free’ development of the marine renewable energy industry. To address this, several policy recommendations were offered as regards to operationalising the EA in terms of marine renewable energy.
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Woo, Eunju. "The Impacts of Tourism Development on Stakeholders' Quality of Life (QOL): A comparison between community residents and employed residents in the hospitality and tourism industry." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50563.
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The primary goal of this dissertation is to determine the relationship between the effects of tourism and stakeholders' quality of life. Specifically, the research investigates stakeholders' perception of the impact of tourism on their life domains, their satisfaction with life domains, and their overall life satisfaction. The relationships among these three components are examined. Depending on the types of stakeholders, their perceptions of and attitudes toward the impact of tourism and quality of life might be different. Therefore, the moderating effect of stakeholders' perceptions of the impact of tourism in life domains and satisfaction with life domains is investigated. Accordingly, the study proposes three research questions: (1) Does the perception of tourism impact in life domains affect satisfaction with different life domains? (2) Does satisfaction with life domains affect overall QOL? (3) Does the perspective of different stakeholders have a moderating effect on the relationship between the perception of tourism impacts in life domains and satisfaction with life domains?
The sample population of stakeholders residing in Hawaii, Virginia, Orlando (FL), Las Vegas (NV), and New York City (NY) was surveyed. Four hundred seven usable questionnaires were subjected to data analysis. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and hierarchical multiple regression (HMR) were performed to test the hypotheses.
The results revealed that the stakeholders' perception of the impact of tourism in the material life domain did affect their material life domain satisfaction. This study also indicated that their satisfaction with the material and non-material life domains significantly influenced their overall quality of life. The hypothesized moderating effects of the perspective of different stakeholders on the relationship between the perception of the impact of tourism in material/non-material life domain and the material/non-material life satisfaction were supported.Ph. D.
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Yoon, Yooshik. "Development of a Structural Model for Tourism Destination Competitiveness from Stakeholders' Perspectives." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29174.
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This study was conducted to theoretically develop and empirically test a structural equation model of tourism destination competitiveness from the tourism stakeholders'perspective. The proposed hypotheses that attempted to identify the structural relationships among the five constructs in the model were examined through a series of analyses in LISREL: 1) perceived tourism development impacts, 2) environmental attitudes, 3) place attachment, 4) development preferences about destination attractions/resources, and 5) support for destination competitive strategies
The principle guideline of this study was that the support of tourism stakeholders for tourism planning and development is a key element for the successful operation, management, and long-term sustainability of tourism destinations. Tourism stakeholders' solid knowledge and experiences in tourism management and industry, professional involvement and participation in tourism planning and development, and long-term community observation and interactions have played an important role in tourism destination management.
A total of 646 usable questionnaires were collected from randomly selected tourism stakeholders in the state of Virginia. From the results of hypotheses tests, tourism stakeholders' preferences about tourism attractions/ resources development are a function of perceived tourism development impacts as well as place attachment. The more stakeholders' preference for developing tourism attractions/resources, the more likely they were to support destination competitive strategies such as marketing efforts and activities, and destination management organizations' role. An additional finding that was not hypothesized indicated that tourism stakeholders, who have perceived benefits from tourism development, particularly in its economic and cultural aspects, are likely to support enhancement strategies for destination competitiveness.
The implications of these findings can be applied to the enhancement of tourism destination competitiveness.Ph. D.
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Stenner, Karen Leonora. "An evaluation of stakeholder views on the impact and development of nurse prescribing in England." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538027.
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Didoné, Marcelo Luis. "Impactos da responsabilidade social de uma universidade comunitária no desenvolvimento local e regional: a percepção dos stakeholders." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UNIJUI, 2014. http://bibliodigital.unijui.edu.br:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2817.
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Esta pesquisa se propõe a investigar e analisar a responsabilidade social de uma Universidade Comunitária, mais profundamente os impactos produzidos em seus Stakeholders. Para alcançar estes objetivos, realizou-se um levantamento bibliográfico que embasou a elaboração do referencial teórico, que aborda particularidades a respeito da responsabilidade social, das universidades, das universidades comunitárias, stakeholders, Balanço Social e ética. A pesquisa foi realizada nos quatro câmpus da Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – UNIJUÍ, tendo como objetivo sistematizar os elementos de impacto social valorados pelos stakeholders de uma universidade comunitária. A partir do método de estudo de caso, numa abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa, utilizou-se como fonte de coleta de dados entrevistas, além da aplicação de questionários. Os resultados da pesquisa permitiram verificar as ações de responsabilidade social e seu impacto na comunidade local e regional, sistematizar categorias de análise de impacto, econômica, social e ambiental, bem como propor instrumentos inovadores na metodologia de elaboração do Balanço Social de segunda geração, que contempla a avaliação das atividades de uma organização a partir de seus diversos públicos.152 f.
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Arunachalam, Aravinthan. "Essays on the Impact of Stakeholders' Sentiment on the Financial Decision Making Process." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/59.
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The most important factor that affects the decision making process in finance is the risk which is usually measured by variance (total risk) or systematic risk (beta). Since investors' sentiment (whether she is an optimist or pessimist) plays a very important role in the choice of beta measure, any decision made for the same asset within the same time horizon will be different for different individuals. In other words, there will neither be homogeneity of beliefs nor the rational expectation prevalent in the market due to behavioral traits. This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first essay, Investor Sentiment and Intrinsic Stock Prices, a new technical trading strategy is developed using a firm specific individual sentiment measure. This behavioral based trading strategy forecasts a range within which a stock price moves in a particular period and can be used for stock trading. Results show that sample firms trade within a range and show signals as to when to buy or sell. The second essay, Managerial Sentiment and the Value of the Firm, examines the effect of managerial sentiment on the project selection process using net present value criterion and also effect of managerial sentiment on the value of firm. Findings show that high sentiment and low sentiment managers obtain different values for the same firm before and after the acceptance of a project. The last essay, Investor Sentiment and Optimal Portfolio Selection, analyzes how the investor sentiment affects the nature and composition of the optimal portfolio as well as the performance measures. Results suggest that the choice of the investor sentiment completely changes the portfolio composition, i.e., the high sentiment investor will have a completely different choice of assets in the portfolio in comparison with the low sentiment investor. The results indicate the practical application of behavioral model based technical indicators for stock trading. Additional insights developed include the valuation of firms with a behavioral component and the importance of distinguishing portfolio performance based on sentiment factors.
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Lax, John R. "THE IMPACT OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ON PERCEIVED BRAND EQUITY IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR – AN EXAMINATION OF THREE STAKEHOLDER SEGMENTS." NSUWorks, 2017. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/133.
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Branding and brand equity, both as theoretical constructs and as a critical part of applied marketing, have received considerable attention in the academic and practitioner literature. Brand equity, generally considered to be the differential in positive brand image and loyalty enjoyed by one brand as compared to that of a lesser known brand, is often attributed to the activities the firm undertakes to promote the brand and communicate its value or benefits. Branding activities, and the resulting brand equity, have been successfully employed by both consumer and industrial firms and those activities may range from those as conventional as television advertising to as esoteric as extreme sports sponsorships. However, brand equity among higher education providers, one of the nation’s largest and most impactful industries, has received far less attention than either consumer or industrial goods and services. Further, the branding activities in which higher education institutions engage, including those associated with business and economic development in their communities, has been neglected in the academic literature. Thus, this investigation seeks to determine the impact those economic development activities have on brand equity as it is perceived by selected stakeholders. Specifically, this research asks if economic development activities, such as incubators, faculty consulting, and entrepreneurial education influences the perceived brand equity of the institution, and if so, in what manner. Of specific interest are the brand equity dimensions of loyalty and image, and if the perceptions of these dimensions differ among types of university stakeholders. As with other brand equity research, brand image and loyalty may vary from segment to segment. This investigation is concerned with three types of stakeholders important to most, if not all, universities; economic development professionals, employers, and alumni. These segments are important in addressing the question of the influence economic development activities have on brand image in the higher education domain as each has the potential to have a profound impact on the success of the institution and its graduates. Employing a qualitative semi-structured interview methodology, to be followed by a two-round Delphi Study, the aim of this research is to address the gap in the literature regarding brand equity in the university domain. The interviews were conducted with sixteen participants representing the three segments. The participants were selected for their expertise in the relevant segment. The resulting interviews were transcribed and then coded to reveal relevant themes and to address the research questions. Subsequent to the interviews, a two-round Delphi study was conducted with the same participants with the aim of reaching expert consensus on the research issues. The research revealed that that four themes dominated the interviews. Functional themes are those that are tangible and applied; integration themes are those that cause the institution to become part of the community; presence themes suggest that simply by its presence in the community, absent of any overt or tangible activity, the university’s brand is impacted and finally, promotion themes suggest that the economic development activities under study have an influence on the brand equity on the institution. The study also discovered that there are differences between how the three segments perceived the activities in that, in most cases, each of the three tended to favor those activities that most closely align with their organizational and personal best interests. A somewhat surprising, and potentially important finding, was the role of students and faculty in the brand image of the university. Student internships were determined to be the most highly rated economic development activity with respect to perceived brand equity, and faculty participation in the community was also highly rated. In both cases, the value of these activities were perceived by the participants as being more important than other more expensive and complex activities such as incubators in the context of building brand equity. Given the lack of existing research in the relationships between business and economic development activities in which universities engage and the brand equity of the university, future research may benefit from continuing to explore this understudied domain in greater detail. As business schools become increasingly interested in experiential education, such as internships and corporate projects, both academic research and applied practice may benefit from a deeper understanding of how these practical and cost effective methods of building a university’s brand benefit the institution, its stakeholders and local communities.
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Nilsson, Johannes, and Henrik Strand. "The impact of company size on the value relevance of social ratings : A quantitative study." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-106093.
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Abstract Problem background and problem discussion: The increased demands on companies and their ability to operate sustainably has made corporate social responsibility (CSR) a very hot topic in modern society. The academic debate has yet to put a definite answer on whether the engagement in CSR activities has a positive effect on a company financially. Previous research on stock listed in Sweden indicate that there is a positive relationship between environmental performance and that there is an asymmetry in how it is valued across company sizes. However, there has not yet been any research made into what impact size has on the value relevance of social CSR ratings. This will be tested by drawing from resource-based theory and legitimacy theory. Research question: How is the value relevance of social ratings affected by accounting for company size? Purpose: The purpose is to examine what effect the inclusion of corporation size has on the value relevance of social CSR ratings. Theory: The study primarily utilizes Stakeholder theory, the resource-based theory and legitimacy theory. Method: This is a quantitative study in a panel data setting with a deductive research approach. The practical method is a regression analysis that assesses the value relevance of CSR measures at the OMX Stockholm for the years of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013. The study encompasses 349 Small-, medium- and large-sized companies and has a total of 1429 observations, which have been subject to statistical significance tests. Results and analysis: The results show that social, environmental and overall CSR ratings are value relevant and associated with lower market values. There also seems to be little impact on results by including company size as a variable. Furthermore the results of this study differ from previous research, implying that results are very sensitive to changes in the regression model. Conclusion: The results of the study lead us to believe that size has little impact on how value relevant social ratings are. This implies that regardless theory such as the resource-based and legitimacy theory these cannot be supported in practice among Swedish firms listed at OMX Stockholm. Furthermore, our method gives different results with regard to previous research done on the Swedish market and indicates that there is a negative relationship between CSR ratings and market value.
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Campos, Leonardo Paiva de Oliveira de Azevedo. "Megaevento para quem? uma análise dos impactos dos jogos olímpicos RIO 2016 no território da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas sob o prisma de distintos stakeholders locais." Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2016. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/4303.
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Os mega-eventos, um dos segmentos de megaprojetos, podem ser compreendidos como uma das mais relevantes iniciativas políticas da era moderna, pois promovem impactos transformadores na população e no local onde ocorrem, de acordo Horne & Whannel (2016). Sendo assim, os mega-eventos, segundo Zhai et al. (2009), apresentam maior investimento, maior complexidade, diversidade de stakeholders e sofrem influências mais amplas em comparação a projetos simples. Neste sentido, buscou-se promover uma sinergia entre a diversidade de stakeholders com os impactos transformadores provenientes dos efeitos do mega-evento, culminando no objetivo deste estudo: analisar os efeitos provenientes do megaevento, Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016, no território da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, sob o prisma de distintos stakeholders durante a realização dos referidos Jogos. Para realizar esta análise, primeiramente, foi realizado o levantamento de dados secundários através da revisão da literatura especializada, utilizando o método webibliomining e proknow-c. Em seguida, foi realizado o levantamento de dados primários através de observação participativa e entrevistas realizadas em todo o território da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, objeto deste estudo. Estas entrevistas apresentaram duas abordagens: questionários focalizados nos transeuntes e questionários focados nos empreendimentos. Ao todo, 71 respondentes participaram das entrevistas que apresentou uma abordagem qualitativa. Todavia, cabe destacar que para a análise dos dados primários aventados foram usados os métodos de estatística descritiva e análise de conteúdo. Após os resultados obtidos através do tratamento dos dados e confrontação entre os primários e secundários, pode-se verificar que a heterogeneidade dos stakeholders locais da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas produziu percepções distintas sobre os Jogos Olímpicos, influenciando diretamente no gerenciamento do próprio megaevento. Sendo assim, realizar o gerenciamento dos stakeholders locais, pode contribuir para a melhor efetividade dos resultados pretendidos dos megaprojetos, gerando benefícios a até, porventura, um legado.
Mega-events can be understood as one of the most important political initiatives of the modern era, as it promotes transformative impacts on the population and the place where they happen, according to Horne & Whannel (2016). Thus, the mega-events, according to Zhai et al. (2009), need higher investment, greater complexity, diversity of stakeholders and suffer broader influences compared to simple projects. In this sense, we sought to promote a synergy between the diversity of stakeholders and the transformative impacts of the mega-event, culminating in the objective of this study: analyze the effects of the mega-event, Olympic Games Rio 2016, in the territory of Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, under the prism of different stakeholders during the accomplishment of these Games. In order to perform this analysis, we first carried out the survey of secondary data through a review of the specialized literature, using the method webibliomining and proknow-c. Then, the primary data were collected through participatory observation and interviews conducted throughout the territory of Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, the object of this study. These interviews presented two approaches: questionnaires focused on passers-by and questionnaires focused on entrepreneurship. In all, 71 respondents participated in the interviews that presented a qualitative approach. However, it should be noted that for the analysis of the primary data, the methods of descriptive statistics and content analysis were used. After the results obtained through data processing and confrontation between primary and secondary, was verified that the heterogeneity of the local stakeholders of Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon produced distinct perceptions about the Olympic Games, directly influencing the management of these mega-event. Therefore, managing the local stakeholders can contribute to the effectiveness of the desired results of megaprojects, generating benefits to, perhaps, a legacy.
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Lopes, Carlos Romeu Montes. "Impactos ambientais da agroindústria de suínos no sudoeste de Goiás: modelo para o alcance da sustentabilidade da atividade." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4177.
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The implantation of pig agroindustry in a region causes environmental impacts, while these businesses use the raw material extracted from natural resources and turn their processing into products. As a result, they get waste which causes the soil, rivers, water table and air contamination. Facing this scenario, the companies cannot ignore the stakeholders’ interests, that are constituted by those who affect or can be affected by the activity of the companies. In this sense, it is fundamental that the posture of the contemporary business develops according to the necessities demanded by the environment it is inset, and which strategy be planned according to the sustainable development. The main goal of this research was to develop a model, through the analysis of part of the supply chain of the pig industry, which reaches a better relationship between these companies and the environment. In order to obtain part of the information, some instruments were used, such as data collection of direct observation, interviews, records and documents analysis. Through the quantitative analysis together with the quality study, it was possible to verify that this activity causes a negative impact in both environmental and social field, which is caused by the lack of an environmental control model. This way, the present study proposes a model, constituted by actions that may lead this activity to a reduction of its impacts, to get its feasibility and the environmental reach, which contributes this way to a better balance of this productive process related to the environmental, social and economic field.
A implantação da agroindústria de suínos em uma região provoca impactos ambientais, na medida em que essas empresas utilizam-se da matéria-prima extraída dos recursos naturais e o seu processamento em bens de consumo, resultando deste processo, resíduos os quais causam a contaminação do solo, rios, lençóis freáticos e do ar. Diante deste cenário, essas empresas não podem ignorar os interesses dos seus stakeholders, que são formados pelo público que podem afetar ou serem afetados pela atividade das organizações. Neste sentido, é fundamental que a postura empresarial contemporânea evolua de acordo com as necessidades exigidas pelo meio em que está inserida e cujas estratégias estejam voltadas ao desenvolvimento sustentável. O objetivo principal da presente pesquisa foi desenvolver um modelo, por meio da análise de uma parte da cadeia produtiva da agroindústria de suínos, que alcance uma melhor relação entre essas empresas e o meio ambiente. Para obter parte das informações trabalhadas foram utilizados como instrumentos de coleta de dados observações diretas, entrevistas, análise de documentos e registros. Por meio da análise quantitativa aliada à qualitativa foi constatado que a referida atividade propicia um impacto negativo nas variáveis ambiental e social, causada pela ausência de um modelo de controle ambiental. Assim sendo, o presente estudo propõe um modelo, constituído por ações que podem direcionar essa atividade para a redução dos seus impactos, objetivando a viabilidade e o alcance sustentável da mesma, o que contribui desta forma para um melhor equilíbrio desse processo produtivo nos aspectos ambiental, social e econômico.
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MOLLAEEFAR, MAJID. "Automating the Quantification and Mitigation of Risks for Multiple Stakeholders." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11567/1101457.
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Cybersecurity risk management consists of several steps including the selection of appropriate controls to minimize risks. This is a difficult task that requires searching through all possible subsets of a set of available controls and identifying those that minimize the risks of all stakeholders. Since stakeholders may have different perceptions of the risks (especially when considering the impact of threats), conflicting goals may arise that require finding the best possible trade-offs among the various needs such as costs and expertise needed to deploy controls. The ability to tackle this kind of problem is particularly relevant when considering privacy provisions deriving from national or international regulations (such as the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) whereby the organization offering a data processing activity should reduce the user’s risk to an acceptable level while controlling costs and other business goals. In this context, being able to compute the subsets of controls that minimize the risks of both the organization of the system and its users is a necessary prerequisite to identify the most appropriate configuration of the controls that offer the best possible trade-off among the various objectives. The thesis proposes a quantitative and (semi)-automated approach to solve this problem based on the well-known notion of Pareto optimality. First, we describe a methodology to semi-automatically assist stakeholders in defining their objectives that measures how much risks are reduced by adopting a certain configuration of mitigation controls. Second, we define a decidable multi-objective optimization problem (based on the objectives previously identified)|called Multi-Stakeholder Risk Minimization Problem (MSRMP)|whose Pareto optimal solutions are the subsets of the controls for which no stakeholder’s risk can be further reduced without increasing the risk of at least one of the other stakeholders. Third, we validate our approach by showing how a prototype tool based on it can assist in the Data Protection Impact Assessment mandated by the General Data Protection Regulation on different use case scenarios. Lastly, we evaluate the scalability of the approach by conducting an experimental evaluation.
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SANTOS, Melquizedequi Cabral dos. "O impacto do uso das metodologias ágeis Scrum e XP na satisfação dos stakeholders." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2014. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/11646.
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As metodologias ágeis vêm despertando interesse da academia e da indústria por apresentarem processos mais flexíveis. Estudos mostram o crescimento da adoção das metodologias ágeis Scrum e XP, no entanto, ainda há uma carência de evidências sobre como a utilização de tais abordagens influencia no desenvolvimento de software. Uma área que ainda apresenta lacunas de pesquisa é referente à satisfação dos stakeholders no projeto de software. Nesse contexto, o objetivo dessa dissertação é identificar o impacto das abordagens Scrum e XP na satisfação dos stakeholders em projetos de software. Para isso se faz necessário responder às seguintes questões de pesquisa: qual é o impacto do uso das metodologias ágeis Scrum e XP na satisfação dos stakeholders? Quais as evidências de contexto desses impactos? Com o objetivo de responder a estas perguntas, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática da literatura que encontrou 22 estudos primários relevantes, cujos dados foram extraídos e sintetizados em um modelo. Os resultados mostraram a identificação dos impactos das metodologias na satisfação dos stakeholders como: (1) aumento da responsabilidade e consciência do cliente; (2) melhora da gestão de risco e acompanhamento do projeto; (3) promoção da melhoria contínua e resolução de conflitos, entre outros.
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Daniels, Laura. "Quantifying the financial and carbon emissions impacts of distributed generation from the perspective of different stakeholders." Thesis, University of Reading, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701800.
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The evolving role of distributed generation (OG) in the electricity network is a commonly debated topic in academic, political and industrial fields. A range of benefits is noted, including the potential to support electricity demand at peak times and thereby reduce investment in other aspects of the electricity system. As market structures develop and the aggregator industry grows at a high pace, the need to quantify the impact of the increase in DG is vital. This project addresses key research objectives surrounding the various impacts of OG projects to DG owners and network operators - at transmission and distribution level. The project focused on two particular areas: the logistical and financial impacts for the DG owners and the longer term environmental impact of extended DG use for network operators, in the form of network investment deferral and avoidance. The project has focused on standby generators, rather than a number of other DG technologies, due to their prevalence globally and their current high usage level in ancillary service markets and within commercial properties across the UK and worldwide, including the M&S estate. Although often considered a quick and easy change to the network, the logistical impact and prerequisites for running DG projects for grid support has not been investigated on a broad scale. This thesis identifies the process that a company wishing to use DG equipment for grid support must go through in order to bring a project from initiation to implementation. The research has identified financial benefits of running standby generators for grid support inherent in the electricity pricing structure of up to 14p/kWh, available in some regions. However, upfront investment and time needed to implement a project can reduce project viability and increase payback periods. Network investment deferral is a well evaluated concept from a financial perspective, but this thesis shows that it is important to consider the carbon emissions from network investment and its deferral. Proxies are developed to convert financial investment in the electricity network into carbon emissions, based on an existing life cycle assessment survey of the GB electricity network. It is shown that, depending on the region, network investment can represent up to 7kgC02 per 1GBP of investment. These proxies are applied to the 2015-2023 investment planning timeframe in the GB network, RII0-ED1, to show that RIIO investment could represent 10,000tC02 in just one DNO region.
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STROEHLE, JUDITH CHRISTINA. "CONDITIONS OF IMPACT. ORGANIZATION AND CONTEXT OF EFFECTIVE MULTI-STAKEHOLDER LABOUR GOVERNANCE IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/574480.
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In vista dei limiti della gestione aziendale unilaterale, le cosiddette iniziative multi-stakeholder (MSI) ci sono progressivamente moltiplicate per affrontare la regolamentazione degli standard internazionali del lavoro nella catena globale del valore, utilizzando le leve e gli strumenti dei più svariati attori, tra cui governi, sindacati e ONG. L'emergere di queste MSI è legata alla convinzione che una maggiore collaborazione porti a una gestione del lavoro più efficace (World Bank, 2015). Le diverse iniziative di collaborazione suggeriscono però che la realtà sia più complessa. Fattori come il coinvolgimento delle parti interessate, la configurazione organizzativa e il contesto locale possono influire notevolmente sui risultati della loro gestione e, in ultima analisi, sul loro successo. Mentre gli studi sulla governance privata del lavoro hanno considerato separatamente ciascuno di questi fattori, non esiste a oggi uno studio che esamini in maniera congiunta l'impatto dei fattori interni ed esterni sul successo della governance collaborativa tramite le MSI. Il presente lavoro si propone di contribuire a colmare questo divario prendendo in esame i casi dell'associazione Fair Labor Association (FLA) e il programma Better Work dell'International Labour Organization (ILO), con una strategia di ricerca quantitativa e qualitativa. In primo luogo, la ricerca fornisce un approfondimento sulle caratteristiche della governance collaborativa offrendo una nuova e completa classificazione delle MSI sulla regolazione del lavoro, considerando le dimensioni del campo di applicazione delle iniziative, della compliance e della funzione delle stesse. Lo studio di caso comparato sottolinea ulteriormente la rilevanza delle dinamiche tra livelli di collaborazione e qualità di governance. In secondo luogo, la ricerca esamina l’impatto dei fattori esterni analizzando i dati sulla social compliance di FLA e Better Work, presentando nuovi risultati che svelano l'impatto delle caratteristiche della supply chain, del contesto istituzionale e del ruolo statale sullo sviluppo della social compliance a fronte di diversi standard di lavoro. La ricerca sottolinea in modo specifico la diversa tangibilità organizzativa dei diritti ammissibili e osservabili (Barrientos e Smith, 2007) e la rilevanza della regolamentazione nazionale del lavoro, nonché del commercio, per promuovere efficacemente gli standard internazionali del lavoro.As an answer to the limits of unilateral, corporate labour governance, so-called multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have increasingly emerged to tackle the regulation of labour standards in global value chains (GVCs), making use of the leverage and tools of more diverse actors, including governments, trade unions and NGOs. The emergence of these MSIs is linked to the belief, that higher collaboration leads to more successful labour governance (World Bank, 2015). The diversity among collaborative initiatives suggests however that the reality is more complex. Factors such as the involvement of specific stakeholders, the organizational setup and the initiative’s local environments can all heavily affect their governance-outcomes, and ultimately their success. Whereas studies on private labour governance have considered each of these factors separately, so far there is no consorted effort which examines the impact of both internal and external conditions on the success of collaborative global labour governance through MSIs. Examining the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the ILO’s Better Work Program, this dissertation contributes to fill this gap with a quantitative-qualitative research strategy. First, it gives insights into the internal conditions of collaborative governance by offering a new and comprehensive classification of labour-regulating MSIs, using dimensions of scope, membership and function. Through a comparative case-study, the research further uncovers re-enforcing dynamics between levels of collaborativeness and governance-quality. Second, external conditions are examined by analysing FLA’s and Better Work’s social compliance data. Here, the dissertation presents novel findings which unravel the impact of supply-chain characteristics, institutional environments and state roles on the development of social compliance with diverse labour standards. The research specifically highlights the distinct organizational tangibility of enabling and observable rights (Barrientos and Smith, 2007) and the relevance of national labour market regulation as well as controlled trade de-regulation for effective public reinforcement of global labour standards.
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Thorley, Mark. "The unexplored impact of emergent technologies on music industry stakeholders : aspirants, producers and consumers." Thesis, Coventry University, 2016. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/42e3ee1b-3756-494c-9f5d-adec1b485be2/1.
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This critical overview draws upon a portfolio consisting of two book chapters, three journal articles and one conference paper all published in international publications between 2011 and the present. The papers have been underpinned, supported and disseminated through 18 conference presentations and a variety of interventions with the commercial environment, all undertaken during the same period. The outputs are crossdisciplinary encompassing technology, acoustics, psychoacoustics, business, music, psychology, physiology, cultural studies etc. The work is tied into two sets of funding from the Higher Education Academy (HEA) focussing on the use of emergent technology to develop music producers’ expertise. The work therefore represents a cohesive but diverse set of outputs, and is reflective of the technologically-driven nature of the creative industries, and the multidisciplinary experience of the author.
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Jenney, Sarah L., Hans Jung, Heiko Seif, and Frank Petzold. "Gamification as a Means to Improve Stakeholder Management in Urban Planning Participation." TUDpress, 2020. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A73589.
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As cities and urban areas grow, the stakeholders involved in urban planning processes increase and diversify. Communication between these different stakeholders is paramount to successful architectural and urban planning. Public participation has gained on significance over the last 60 years as a means to incorporate their local knowledge in planning processes. Public participation forms an essential part as a form of democratic decision-making and in building trust between stakeholders. However, public participation offers do not meet the needs of all stakeholder groups at different planning stages. This is most evident when projects provoke resistance from the general population. This research investigated the misalignment of expert offers and public needs in urban planning public participation at early planning phases as well as the possibility and user acceptance of gamification in addressing these.
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Khoo, Huoy Min. "Upgrading packaged software an exploratory study of decisions, impacts, and coping strategies from the perspectives of stakeholders /." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12192005-131004/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2005.Daniel Robey, committee chair; Pamela Barr, Mark Keil, Ephraim McLean, committee members. Electronic text (209 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 10, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207).