We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
A Stakeholder Approach to Understanding Economic Development Decision Making: Public Subsidies for Professional Sport Facilities.
- Authors
Friedman, Michael T.; Mason, Daniel S.
- Abstract
To analyze the politics of economic development decision making through focusing on participants and their interests, this article details a model of stakeholder analysis developed within organization studies by Mitchell, Agle, and Wood for use among policy makers and researchers. Demonstrating the model through the issue of subsidies for the construction of major league sports facilities, a stakeholder map is created to assess the constituent environment based on the degree to which stakeholders possess attributes of power; legitimacy, and urgency. With this map, various situational factors are assessed to demonstrate the utility of stakeholder analysis for decision makers to strategically manage constituent groups and to explain case outcomes and the manner in which policies are determined. Although the findings suggest that decision makers should focus their resources on Stakeholders possessing all three attributes, monitoring the environment is essential to identify potential threats and opportunities.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC development; URBAN planning; ECONOMIC policy; STAKEHOLDERS; SUBSIDIES; DOMESTIC economic assistance
- Publication
Economic Development Quarterly, 2004, Vol 18, Issue 3, p236
- ISSN
0891-2424
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0891242404265795