Democratic Stakeholder Representativeness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jastram, Sarah Margaretha; Berberyan, Zara
• 署名单位: Leuphana University Luneburg
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muad005
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 647-660
• 关键词: corporate social-responsibility; GLOBAL GOVERNANCE; public-sector; collaborative governance; developing-countries; decision-making; legitimacy; PARTICIPATION; management; engagement

摘要

Stakeholder theory has been advocating the inclusion of affected parties in organizational processes to increase the legitimacy and effectiveness of organizational governance. However, organizations can fail to achieve these objectives if there is no systematic link between stakeholders and their constituency. Based on democratic notions of representation, we argue that democratic stakeholder representativeness is an essential virtue of stakeholder governance processes. We conceptually derive authorization and accountability as normative elements of stakeholder representativeness and operationalize the construct by proposing empirical indicators of stakeholder representativeness as well as procedural guidance on their adoption in a practical governance context. By doing so, we contribute to the advancement of practical stakeholder governance as well as to the public management and organizational theory literature by specifying and operationalizing a construct that had previously been only vaguely defined.