Abstract
Academics and practitioners have characterized external stakeholder engagement as crucial for delivering value and manifold project outcomes to a broad range of project stakeholders. Research on stakeholder management in the project management field provides valuable contributions to external stakeholder engagement, but further work is required to develop a more nuanced understanding about how to organize for successful external stakeholder engagement in the context of complex inter-organizational projects. This study explores what kind of organizing solutions contribute to successful external stakeholder engagement, how and why in complex inter-organizational projects. Our empirical study of two alliance infrastructure projects in Northern Europe offers novel understanding and insights about external stakeholder engagement. Our findings unravel three organizing solutions: governance elements, behavioral and value elements, and dynamism elements that enable the structure, content and timely deployment of successful external stakeholder engagement activities. The present study develops propositions and a static model that entail a mid-range theory about the organizing solutions and their relationships for successful external stakeholder engagement in complex inter-organizational projects, with implications for research in both project stakeholder management and alliance project management.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | EURAM 2019 Annual Conference |
Subtitle of host publication | Exploring the Future of Management |
Publisher | European Academy of Management (EURAM) |
Number of pages | 44 |
Publication status | Unpublished - 28 Jun 2019 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | European Academy of Management Annual Conference - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 26 Jun 2019 → 28 Jun 2019 http://www.euram-online.org/annual-conference-2019.html |
Conference
Conference | European Academy of Management Annual Conference |
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Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 26/06/2019 → 28/06/2019 |
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Keywords
- Stakeholder engagement
- organizing solutions
- project success
- stakeholder management
- theoretical model
- mid-range theory