Abstract
Public awareness of infrastructure projects, particularly roads, many of which are delivered through networked arrangements, is high for several reasons. Such projects often involve significant public investment; they may involve multiple and conflicting stakeholders and can potentially have major environmental impacts. To produce positive outcomes from infrastructure delivery, it is imperative that stakeholder “buy in” be obtained particularly about decisions relating to the scale and location of infrastructure. Given the likelihood that stakeholders will have different levels of interest and investment in project outcomes, failure to manage this dynamic could potentially jeopardize project delivery by delaying or halting the construction of essential infrastructure. Consequently, stakeholder engagement has come to constitute a critical activity in infrastructure development delivered through networks. To guide infrastructure governance networks in the undertaking stakeholder engagement, this paper proposes and tests a domain-based model of stakeholder engagement.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Brackertz N, Zwart I, Meredyth D, Ralston L (2005) Community consultation and the ‘hard to reach’ concepts and practice in victorian local government. Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Yang J, Lim S (2008) Reality check–the identification of sustainability perception and deliverables for australian road infrastructure projects. Paper presented at the New Zealand society for sustainability engineering and science, Blueprints for sustainable infrastructure conference, Auckland, NZ
Tavares A, Camões P (2010) New forms of local governance: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the case of Portuguese municipal corporations. Public Manage Rev 12(5):587–608
Chinyio E, Olomolaiye P (2010) Introducing stakeholder management. In: Chinyio E, Olomolaiye P (eds) Construction stakeholder management Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
Newcombe R (2003) From client to project stakeholders: a stakeholder mapping approach. Constr Manage Econ 21(8):841–848
Bourne L, Walker D (2008) Project relationship management and the stakeholder Circle™. Int J Managing Proj Bus 1(1):125–130
El-Gohary N, Osman H, El-Diraby T (2006) Stakeholder management for public private partnerships. Int J Project Manage 24(7):595–604
Freeman R (1984) Strategic management: a stakeholder approach. Pitman, Boston
Miles S (2012) Stakeholder: essentially contested or just confused? J Bus Ethics 108(3):285–298
Donaldson T, Preston L (1995) The stakeholder theory of the modern corporation: concepts, evidence and implications. Acad Manag Rev 20:65–91
Mitchell R, Agle B, Wood D (1997) Toward a theory of stakeholder identification and salience: defining the principle of who and what really counts. Acad Manag Rev 22(4):853–886
Friedman A, Miles S (2006) Stakeholders: theory and practice. Oxford University Press, New York
Klijn E, Koppenjan J, Termeer K (1995) Managing networks in the public sector: a theoretical study of management strategies in policy networks. Public Adm 73(3):437–454
Chinyio E, Akintoye A (2008) Practical approaches for engaging stakeholders: findings from the UK. Constr Manage Econ 26(6):591–599
Harrison S, Mort M (1998) Which champions, which people? Public and user involvement in health care as a technology of legitimation. Soc Policy Adm 32(1):60–70
Agle B, Mitchell R, Sonnenfeld J (1999) Who matters to CEOs? An investigation of stakeholder attributes and salience, corporate performance, and CEO values. Acad Manag J 42(5):507–525
Parent M, Deephouse D (2007) A case study of stakeholder identification and prioritization by managers. J Bus Ethics 75(1):1–23
Patton M (2002) Qualitative research and evaluation methods, 3rd edn. Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks, California
Miles M, Huberman A (1994) Qualitative analysis: an expanded sourcebook. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California
Acknowledgments
This paper was developed within the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management, established, and supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Programme. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the CRC.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Beach, S. (2015). Infrastructure Delivered Through Networks: Engagement of Stakeholders. In: Lee, W., Choi, B., Ma, L., Mathew, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2012). Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06966-1_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06966-1_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-02461-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-06966-1
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)