Natural resource project / conflict management : stakeholders doing "class" analysis (original) (raw)
Beyond the technological fix Though poorly developed from a methodological standpoint, stakeholder analysis (SA) now belongs to the long list of virtues and catchwords reigning over the field of development. Much to its credit the method travels well across disciplinary and theoretical boundaries. It is so eclectic as to stretch across the political spectrum and fit in with most of what it encounters, be it informed by participatory methos or not (Burgoyne 1994: 205, Grimble and Wellard 1997: 182). SA is currently used in fields ranging from political science to policy development and international relations. The concept and related methodology have made significant inroads into poverty reduction studies and applied research pertaining to issues of sustainable livelihood, communitybased natural resource and conflict management (RamÃrez 1999). It is also part of World Bank thinking on participation methodology since about 1993 (MacArthur 1997a: 5). The origins of SA, however, belong to the history of business and managerial science. This is reflected in the term "stakeholder" itself, apparently first recorded in 1708, to mean a bet or a deposit. The word now refers to anyone significantly affecting or affected by someone else's decision-making activity. Economic theory centered on notions of stakeholder relations goes back to the beginnings of industrialism and is embedded in ideals of 19 th century cooperative movement and mutuality (Clarke and Clegg 1998: 295). Stakeholder theory reappears in business and This work is used with the permission of Jacques M. Chevalier.
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