We identified six distinct resource governance systems, each variably focused on ecosystem services and each guided by different institutions that shape stakeholder behavior.
More often than not, reputational influence shapes stakeholders and investors' perception of a business' longevity, sustainability, and growth potential.
While Canada and the United Kingdom were sometimes mentioned as additional markets, the United States is the predominant target market shaping stakeholders' current expectations and planning efforts.
As health research agendas are increasingly shaped by stakeholder involvement, critical reflection on who constitutes a stakeholder is warranted.
Ideas, interests and power of different actors and stakeholders shape the policy process and thus also policy content (cf. Gilson and Raphaely 2008).
Loveridge [2] emphasized that active participation by wide spread stakeholders shapes future society.
In this context, one of the workshop presenters discussed experiences in the UK with a public SynBio dialogue, showing that participants were not only concerned with risks and benefits of potential future applications, but also with the motivations of actors and stakeholders shaping the field, that is, the individual and societal goals and interests that drive research (Bhattachary et al. [2010]).
It appears that at an early stage of introducing MSP in Scotland powerful stakeholders shaped the images, values and principles that guide it, and that including a broader range of actors early on might positively affect the legitimacy and acceptance of MSP in its later stages.
Healthcare organization, contextual factors, and the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders shaping practice behaviours - all may be studied using qualitative methods.
I use the controversy over urban swiftlet farming in the Malaysian city of George Town, Penang, to examine discourses used by key stakeholders to shape debates over the place of non-human animals in cities.
