The objective of stakeholder consensus to advance the implementation of foresight exercise can create inherent prioritization in the foresight methodology and outcome.
Public buy-in (legitimation) is not the objective of stakeholder participation; however, it can be a by-product of good design which suits the context and effectively uses citizen input to improve decision making.
A quantitative approach allows the objective grouping of stakeholders not only according to their socioeconomic characteristics but also regarding their links to SES, their visions of the subject under investigation, and their type of knowledge.
The objective of this stakeholder network was to create a widely supported basis for public health policy related to improving air quality in Europe for instance, the communication of scientific findings for policy use and the identification of important gaps in the research.
The paper reports on how social marketing sponsorships compare to commercial sponsorships in terms of (a) the identification of key stakeholders and their roles, (b) the objectives of the stakeholders involved, and (c) how sponsorships are formed, developed, and implemented.
Governments in developing countries often face the daunting task of designing a network of grain storage facilities to simultaneously benefit the various stakeholders (farmers, market traders, exporters, etc). in the grain supply chain irrespective of the conflicting objectives of these stakeholders.
Policy makers and practitioners define initiatives based on objectives of their stakeholders.
Land use selection is driven by the objectives of the stakeholders.
There are further challenges with appropriate system boundary definitions, and challenges in modeling the decision-making and conflicting objectives of multiple stakeholders in the WEFN.
Based on different scales of values or aims, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is partially used to put a rationale in the frequently contradictory objectives of the stakeholders.
Although many pedagogical lessons were learned, and have since been applied in other learning spaces around the host campus and elsewhere, these successful disseminations of changed practice were not in accordance with the objectives of key stakeholders.
