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Foucault's [ 18] concept of power and the concept of position mapping of actors such as that used by Glassman et al. [ 3] informed the actors' analysis framework, where actors are identified, and their position, nature and magnitude of power and level of commitment established.
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Actor analysis is able to facilitate this through its examination of actor goals, interactions, and influences.
We suggest FCM approach as a new participatory method in environmental policy: through aiding in Multi-stakeholder (actor) analysis for risk assessment, capturing values and scenarios construction.
Our findings underline the importance of actor analysis as an investigative resource for delineating actor positions on a range of strategic issues pertinent to health workforce futures to reveal a different perspective of the system's evolution than that derived from conventional health workforce forecasting methods.
Through an embedded mixed methods design, we draw on data from inductive document analysis, deductively coded semi-structured interview responses from two separate but interconnected health sub sectors and numerically transform these to comply with the selected actor analysis software's input requirements.
The actor analysis included a formal stakeholder analysis (31).
Table 7 Primary actor of analysis Primary actor of analysis Conceptual studies Empirical studies Formal models Total Manufacturer 1 19 18 38 Carrier – – 5 5 Retailer – 4 2 6 Multiple 9 18 14 41 Total 10 41 39 90 Table 8 Level of analysis Level of analysis Conceptual studies Empirical studies Formal models Total Dyad 2 3 12 17 Chain 4 33 5 42 Network 1 2 22 25 Other 3 3 – 6 Total 10 41039 90.
After analyzing prominent actors, statistical analysis was conducted in order to validate the results of social network analysis 1.
An embedded case study design was employed using interviews of actors and analysis of official documents.
For instance, all four empirical papers that consider retailers as actors of analysis (see Sect. 4.3.1) address all three TBL dimensions.
Conceptual (9 papers) and empirical studies (18 papers) exhibit a stronger tendency to include multiple actors of analysis compared to formal models (14 papers), which put a narrower focus to build the model on a decent scale of complexity by focusing on single actors (18 papers on manufacturers, 5 papers on carriers, 2 papers on retailers).
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