Assessment Of Stakeholders Management Practices With A Special Focus On Selected Joint Projects In Ethiopia
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2017-06-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose /objective of this study is to provide stirring theoretical and empirical insights into
joint project stakeholder related phenomena through the study of how stakeholders attempt to
influence joint projects and how a joint project management tries to manage these influences in joint
multi-firm projects. Accordingly, the focus of this study is the evaluation of the stakeholder
management protocol of joint projects performed by selected non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) that are recently functioning in Ethiopia. For the reason that the overriding purpose of the
study is to investigate the stakeholder management experience of the designated institutions as
practiced in the selected projects, this study has made use of descriptive method of research design. In
the meanwhile, mixed research approach has been adopted to carry out the study. Moreover, because it
was possible to obtain the information the researcher needed from all stakeholders of the designated
institutions simultaneously, the time dimension of the study is cross-sectional. The target population
of this study is the entire project personnel, the relevant government officials, and project
beneficiaries of the chosen projects, out of which 15% is taken as a representative sample. Because
the appraisal principally targeted on those individuals who had experiences with project stakeholder
management, a non-probability judgment sampling technique was adopted. The findings of this
project highlight the importance of stakeholder management in joint projects. Through the
application of the ideas of stakeholder theory, the results of this project provided new theoretical
and empirical understanding of how joint project stakeholders may influence the project
management’s decision making during the project lifecycle. These findings also demonstrated how a
joint project may analyse its stakeholder environment and respond to stakeholder pressures and
unexpected events in the context of joint projects. Ultimately, the new knowledge of joint
stakeholders’ influence strategies and better understanding of how a joint project can deal with
stakeholder influences, supports project managers in the development of effective project stakeholder
management approaches
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Project Stakeholders, Project Stakeholders Management, Joint Projects,