Rational

• Even though stakeholder management is a key to project success, still many project fail or are extremely challenged by project stakeholders.

• The global request for considering sustainable development increases the need for project stakeholder management even more.

• Practitioners and researchers alike need a deeper understanding on how to practice stakeholder management to support benefit creation.

Project objectives

• Further develop project stakeholder management in the context of sustainable development to allow for co-creation of knowledge based on theory and practice.

• As one of the main challenges in stakeholder management is to grasp the complexity of the project and the changing stakeholder relations, we seek to develop adequate working forms for practice.

• Reflect on potentials and limitations of the proposed project stakeholder approach to better support benefits creation for project investors and other project stakeholders.

Project organisation

• Principal researchers: a.o. Univ.Prof. Dr. Martina Huemann, Prof. Dr. Pernille Eskerod

• Project manager and researcher: Dr. Claudia Weninger

• Research assistants: Tamara Wehrstein, Sarah Friedrich

• Constellation experts: Brigitte Sachs-Schaffer, Dr. Daniela Andratsch

• Focus group contributors: Project management, stakeholder management and sustainable development experts

• Practice partner contributors: Representatives of practice partners