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15 Citations
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Do Stakeholders Modulate Philanthropic Strategy? Corporate Philanthropy as Stakeholders’ Engagement

  • María Lourdes Arco-Castro,
  • María Victoria Lopez-Pérez,
  • Sara Rodriguez-Gomez and
  • Raquel Garde-Sánchez

4 September 2020

Corporate philanthropy, as an expression of commitment to the common good, can contribute to the creation of social value in companies. This corporate philanthropy can be managed in various ways. The choice of how to channel corporate philanthropy co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,810 Views
13 Pages

10 September 2017

Organisations are responsible for the impact of their decisions and actions on society and environment. This responsibility should be exercised by, among others, transparent and ethical conduct, which contributes to sustainable development, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,304 Views
26 Pages

Analysis of the Dialogue with Stakeholders by the IBEX 35 Companies

  • Isabel-María García-Sánchez,
  • Cristina Aibar-Guzmán,
  • Carmen Serrano-Valdecillos and
  • Beatriz Aibar-Guzmán

8 February 2022

Stakeholder dialogue is considered a key component of companies’ corporate social responsibility strategy with the aim to discover stakeholders’ demands, expectations, and their view of the firms. Based on the stakeholder theory, this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,932 Views
27 Pages

Effect of Stakeholders-Oriented Behavior on the Performance of Sustainable Business

  • Carlos Ferro-Soto,
  • Luz Amparo Macías-Quintana and
  • Paula Vázquez-Rodríguez

11 December 2018

This study focuses on stakeholder-oriented behavior, throughout organizational culture and organizational behavior, and its effects on the performance of sustainable organizations managed according to Corporative Social Responsibility (CSR) criteria....

  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
11,401 Views
25 Pages

The Role of Stakeholders in the Context of Responsible Innovation: A Meta-Synthesis

  • Luciana Maines da Silva,
  • Claudia Cristina Bitencourt,
  • Kadígia Faccin and
  • Tatiana Iakovleva

23 March 2019

This paper contributes to the sustainability debate by analyzing the inclusion dimension in the responsible research and innovation (RRI) process. RRI is claimed to be an important tool for addressing global challenges and achieving sustainable devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,028 Views
27 Pages

28 May 2022

Stakeholders’ Participation (SP) aims to involve stakeholders in decision-making processes about significant choices affecting their organizations, cities, or communities. Stakeholders’ participation is maintained through SP processes (SP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
14,021 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2022

Stakeholder engagement is a central tenet for understanding and solving sustainability challenges. Given the existing stakeholder knowledge base and the fact that practitioners mostly focus on the engagement of high-power and salience stakeholders, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,488 Views
22 Pages

Priority Stakeholders’ Perception: Social Responsibility Indicators

  • Rosane Maria Seibert,
  • Clea Beatriz Macagnan and
  • Robert Dixon

20 January 2021

This study aims to build a list of composite indicators by information that enable the assessment of philanthropic higher education organizations’ (PHEOs) social responsibility based on the interests of their stakeholders. A list of 88 social r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,001 Views
18 Pages

Within any ecosystem, information sharing is essential. In this paper, the Swedish gravel road ecosystem is studied, where information plays a crucial role for the effective management of operations and maintenance. However, efficient information sha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,136 Views
17 Pages

The Importance of Stakeholders in Managing a Safe City

  • Wioletta Wereda,
  • Natalia Moch and
  • Anna Wachulak

27 December 2021

Contemporary cities are complex systems in which there are many interactions and dependencies in relation to the environment. Currently, the development of cities and their safety are among the most important international socio-economic processes. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,201 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2021

Multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) have gained momentum in addressing contentious and cross-sectoral aspects of natural resources management. They have helped to enhance cross-learning and the inclusion of marginalized groups. Tanzania’s water resour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,005 Views
24 Pages

Engaging Stakeholders to Solve Complex Environmental Problems Using the Example of Micropollutants

  • Thomas Hillenbrand,
  • Felix Tettenborn,
  • Marcus Bloser,
  • Stephan Luther,
  • Adolf Eisenträger,
  • Janek Kubelt and
  • Jörg Rechenberg

29 September 2023

Current and future challenges such as the climate crisis, demographic change and achieving the objectives of the Water Framework Directive require holistic and precautionary approaches within the framework of national and supranational strategies. Sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,311 Views
25 Pages

How Different Stakeholders Perceive Benefits, Challenges, and Barriers in the Implementation of Green Technology Projects

  • Khalid Khalfan Mohamed Al Naqbi,
  • Udechukwu Ojiako,
  • M. K. S. Al-Mhdawi,
  • Maxwell Chipulu and
  • Fikri T. Dweiri

4 November 2025

Differing stakeholder interests often lead to the application of varying criteria when evaluating green technology projects. This heterogeneity can impede project outcomes by making it challenging to reconcile conflicting perspectives. The present st...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,935 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2022

In the age of COVID, the regaining of economies appears mostly imperative, and rural areas could play a crucial role in this framework. The question of inhabitants’ dispersion and low density, and the exodus of rural people to bigger urban cent...

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  • Open Access
1,268 Views
26 Pages

23 May 2025

This study addresses the need for early design processes for diverse stakeholder interests in engineering challenges. It does this by using System-of-Systems frameworks, methods, and tools. The presented method, Inclusive SoS Analysis, helps to acqui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,726 Views
18 Pages

Private firms have been struggling to simultaneously achieve both environmental and economic goals. The concept of eco-efficiency captures the extent to which firms gain competitiveness through environmental management. Based on stakeholder salience...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,570 Views
10 Pages

CSR Reporting of Stakeholders’ Health: Proposal for a New Perspective

  • Ehsanul Huda Chowdhury,
  • Brita Backlund Rambaree and
  • Gloria Macassa

22 January 2021

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to identify and categorize disclosures from the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) that have direct or indirect influence on health of external or internal stakeholders. Met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,014 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2024

Overloaded trucks contribute heavily to road damage and increased maintenance costs, and Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) systems are an effective tool for detecting them without disrupting traffic flow. However, overloaded truck drivers often adjust their rout...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
18,937 Views
12 Pages

Capturing the Stakeholders’ View in Sustainability Reporting: A Novel Approach

  • Nicola Bellantuono,
  • Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo and
  • Barbara Scozzi

16 April 2016

Sustainability reporting is the process by which companies describe how they deal with their own economic, environmental, and social impacts, thus making stakeholders able to recognize the value of sustainable practices. As stressed in the Global Rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,462 Views
13 Pages

The Effects of Green Innovations in Organizations: Influence of Stakeholders

  • Kalaivani Jayaraman,
  • Sreenivasan Jayashree and
  • Magiswary Dorasamy

6 January 2023

Organizations moving towards adopting sustainable business development has become a necessity. As more and more stakeholders increasingly show interest in pollution and environmental degradation and the major impacts on the economic activities of org...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,514 Views
16 Pages

Fostering Responsible Innovation through Stakeholder Engagement: Case Study of North Carolina Sweetpotato Stakeholders

  • Khara Grieger,
  • Sebastian Zarate,
  • Sarah Kathleen Barnhill-Dilling,
  • Shelly Hunt,
  • Daniela Jones and
  • Jennifer Kuzma

17 February 2022

Stakeholder and community engagement are critical for the successful development of new technologies that aim to be integrated into sustainable agriculture systems. This study reports on an approach used to engage stakeholders within the sweetpotato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,317 Views
22 Pages

10 April 2019

This study focuses on how domestic and international entrepreneurs convince stakeholders that they are trustworthy. Drawing on the signaling theory, this paper explores how both types of entrepreneurs send signals, displaying a specific behavioral pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,313 Views
15 Pages

12 May 2022

Stakeholders need to participate in the carbon abatement activities to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutralization. This paper developed a system of evaluation indices on carbon emission reduction of stakeholders to elucidate the interplaying relat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,087 Views
19 Pages

How Do Tourism Stakeholders Support Sustainable Tourism Development: The Case of Iran

  • Xiaoyuan Wu,
  • Shiva Hashemi,
  • Yiyue Yao,
  • Shaian Kiumarsi,
  • Danping Liu and
  • Jinquan Tang

The aim of this paper is to empirically examine the effect of emotional solidarity, stakeholders’ attitude, stakeholders’ commitment, perceived economic benefit, and cost on the sustainable tourism development in the Iranian tourism secto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,521 Views
24 Pages

Perspectives on Modeling Energy and Mobility Transitions for Stakeholders: A Dutch Case

  • Younjung Choi,
  • Marcus Vinicius Pereira Pessoa and
  • G. Maarten Bonnema

We address the value of engaging stakeholders in energy and mobility transitions by using models. As a communication medium, models can facilitate the collaborative exploration of a future between modeling researchers and stakeholders. Developing mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,283 Views
12 Pages

Participation and Engagement of Public Health Stakeholders in Climate and Health Adaptation

  • Erika Austhof,
  • Vjollca Berisha,
  • Ben McMahan,
  • Gigi Owen,
  • Ladd Keith,
  • Matthew Roach and
  • Heidi E. Brown

7 March 2020

Stakeholder participation at the intersection of climate and health is essential to assess and plan for the human health impacts of current and projected climate-sensitive hazards. Using the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) Coaliti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,819 Views
23 Pages

14 March 2022

In this paper, we are interested in assessing the Greek protected areas’ (PAs) operation, and in particular, to what extent the stakeholders engaged in their management consider that the “good environmental governance” criteria are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,936 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2018

Currently, there is a growing number of businesses which organize their operations in the form of projects. One of the key success factors in the area of project management is building successful relationships with project stakeholders. Using stakeho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,001 Views
21 Pages

Towards Sustainable Finance: Conceptualizing Future Generations as Stakeholders

  • Leonard-Călin Abrudan,
  • Mirabela-Constanța Matei and
  • Maria-Madela Abrudan

12 December 2021

The paper aims to address a difficult yet important issue of the modern world, which is related to a lack of consideration, from investors’ point of view, for the sustainable future of our socioeconomic system. Many investors think in terms of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,165 Views
25 Pages

17 January 2023

The basis for developing logistics solutions in cities is to know the requirements and expectations of current and potential transport users and for decision makers to strive to meet them. In building an urban logistics strategy, it is therefore nece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,634 Views
14 Pages

Investigating the Impact of Communication Factors and Stakeholders Engagement on Renewable Energy Projects in Pakistan

  • Shabir Hussain Malik,
  • Weizhong Fu,
  • Samma Faiz Rasool,
  • Gowhar Ahmad Wani,
  • Shah Zaman and
  • Najaf Ali Wani

20 July 2023

This study investigates the relationship between communication factors, stakeholders’ engagement, and project success (P.S.) of renewable energy in Pakistan. The aim of this study is to identify the communication factors that impact the success...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,899 Views
23 Pages

Sustainability-Conscious Stakeholders and CSR: Evidence from IJVs of Ghana

  • Gang Tian,
  • Gabriel Dodzi Pekyi,
  • Haojia Chen,
  • Huaping Sun and
  • Xiaoling Wang

11 January 2021

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of international joint ventures (IJVs) are considered a way for multinational corporations (MNCs) to be embedded in local communities. Existing literature generally assumes that MNC research applies to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,830 Views
15 Pages

How Does Reciprocity Affect Undergraduate Student Orientation towards Stakeholders?

  • José-Luis Godos-Díez,
  • Roberto Fernández-Gago and
  • Laura Cabeza-García

28 October 2019

Nowadays, students are more aware of the impact of companies on their stakeholders and the need for properly handling their expectations to operationalize corporate social responsibility. Nevertheless, little is known about how certain individual tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,536 Views
19 Pages

Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Stakeholders’ Interests: Evidence from China

  • Lu Xu,
  • Li Xie,
  • Shengjun Mei,
  • Jianli Hao,
  • Yuqian Zhang and
  • Yu Song

19 April 2024

This paper examines whether the adoption of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) by listed firms could enhance the alignment between corporate sustainability reporting and stakeholders’ interests in China. Drawing on content analysis of the en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
18,743 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2019

The strategic goal of city management is to ensure its sustainable development which requires a balance of rare resources. From the operational perspective, namely projects implementing sustainable development, the balance refers to human resources....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,185 Views
36 Pages

An Approach Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets for Considering Stakeholders’ Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Hesitation in Software Features Prioritization

  • Vassilis C. Gerogiannis,
  • Dimitrios Tzimos,
  • George Kakarontzas,
  • Eftychia Tsoni,
  • Omiros Iatrellis,
  • Le Hoang Son and
  • Andreas Kanavos

26 February 2024

This paper introduces a semi-automated approach for the prioritization of software features in medium- to large-sized software projects, considering stakeholders’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction as key criteria for the incorporation of candida...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,730 Views
14 Pages

13 April 2022

Corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) scandals are frequently reported in China and have a huge impact on the enterprise and society. Aiming to understand the underlying mechanisms between CSIR and enterprise outcomes, this study uses a sample of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,276 Views
22 Pages

Stakeholders’ Roles in the Delivery of Sustainable Housing Projects in Lagos State, Nigeria

  • Feyisetan Leo-Olagbaye,
  • Henry Odeyinka and
  • Pavithra Rathnasiri

28 July 2023

The role stakeholders play is fundamental to the realisation of sustainable development. Consequentially, there is a need for the major stakeholders to be fully aware of their respective roles. Thus, this paper focused on assessing the stakeholders&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,292 Views
14 Pages

Development of Brazilian Biodiesel Sector from the Perspective of Stakeholders

  • Bárbara Françoise Cardoso,
  • Pery Francisco Assis Shikida and
  • Adele Finco

20 March 2017

In Brazil, the main program with respect to biodiesel is the National Program of Biodiesel Production and Use (NPBP). It is also considered the regulation mark of biodiesel production in Brazil and its directives are social inclusion and regional dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,101 Views
15 Pages

The Stakeholders’ Perspective within the B Corp Certification for a Circular Approach

  • Stefano Poponi,
  • Andrea Colantoni,
  • Sirio R.S. Cividino and
  • Enrico Maria Mosconi

15 March 2019

A circular economy has been gaining momentum as the most innovative approach in business. Its proposed model, based on sustainability and new product-driven differentiated strategies of production and organizational exchange, has brought to light the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,275 Views
16 Pages

23 September 2020

An understanding of how public preferences vary among different stakeholders toward forest management policies would be helpful in the forest policy design and administration process. In this study, we investigate the preferences toward forest manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,007 Views
24 Pages

Role-Driven Clustering of Stakeholders: A Study of IoT Security Improvement

  • Latifah Almalki,
  • Amany Alnahdi and
  • Tahani Albalawi

14 June 2023

This study aims to address the challenges of managing the vast amount of data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices by categorizing stakeholders based on their roles in IoT security. As the number of connected devices increases, so do the ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,802 Views
26 Pages

Assessment of the Crowd Logistics Solutions—The Stakeholders’ Analysis Approach

  • Jagienka Rześny-Cieplińska and
  • Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz

27 September 2019

This article presents the assessment results for crowd logistics (CL) solutions from the perspective of the needs of different stakeholders. The uniqueness of this study lies in entering these needs in the implementation of the three spheres of susta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,916 Views
15 Pages

6 July 2023

South Africa receives insufficient rainfall to meet citizens’ water needs and this is compounded by deficiencies in infrastructure for water services because of inadequate investment and a lack of maintenance. Municipal public–private par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,617 Views
13 Pages

Redefining Neurodevelopmental Impairment: Perspectives of Very Preterm Birth Stakeholders

  • Anne Synnes,
  • Amarpreet Chera,
  • Lindsay L. Richter,
  • Jeffrey N. Bone,
  • Claude Julie Bourque,
  • Sofia Zhang-Jiang,
  • Rebecca Pearce,
  • Annie Janvier and
  • Thuy Mai Luu

Children born very preterm are at risk of severe neurodevelopmental impairment, a composite endpoint that includes cerebral palsy, developmental delay, and hearing and visual impairment defined by medical professionals. We aimed to describe preterm b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
9,982 Views
24 Pages

Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

  • Walther Zeug,
  • Alberto Bezama,
  • Urs Moesenfechtel,
  • Anne Jähkel and
  • Daniela Thrän

13 March 2019

The bioeconomy as an industrial metabolism based on renewable resources is characterized by, not intrinsic, but rather potential benefits for global sustainability, depending on many factors and actors. Hence, an appropriate systematic monitoring of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,153 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2021

The research aims to identify indicators of representative information on sustainability from the cooperative organizations’ primary stakeholders’ perspective to mitigate information asymmetry. The study develops in seven stages: the primary stakehol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,619 Views
18 Pages

Marine Litter in Croatian Adriatic: Sources, Quantities and Stakeholders′ Perspectives

  • Marina Funduk,
  • Pero Tutman,
  • Anamarija Farkaš,
  • Sanja Tišma and
  • Ana-Maria Boromisa

22 April 2021

The problem of marine litter is becoming more visible in Croatia. The main goal of this paper is to investigate issues related to marine litter in the Croatian Adriatic, from the current state of sources and quantities of marine litter, through marin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,993 Views
21 Pages

22 July 2014

The last revision of the EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme) Regulation encouraged a cluster approach to increase the participation of the organizations and to involve local stakeholders in the commitment to sustainability. Our research activity i...

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