TY - JOUR

T1 - Democratic Stakeholder Representativeness

AU - Jastram, Sarah Margaretha

AU - Berberyan, Zara

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Public Management Research Association. All rights reserved.

PY - 2023/10/1

Y1 - 2023/10/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Politics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166651356&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/jopart/muad005

DO - 10.1093/jopart/muad005

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85166651356

VL - 33

SP - 647

EP - 660

JO - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

JF - Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

SN - 1053-1858

IS - 4

ER -