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Organizations, Stakeholders and Public Affairs

A special issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2013) | Viewed by 22036

Special Issue Editor

Dr. David Eduardo Cavazos

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Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, MSC 05 3090, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Interests: regulation; corporate political strategy; reputation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The realm of firm public affairs is extremely broad and complex. Issues ranging from stakeholder relations, issues management, political participation, strategy and agenda setting are among the wide range of issues that pose a variety of questions regarding firm interactions with external organizations. In addition such questions may have different, unique answers depending on context and global perspective. The special issue, accordingly, seeks original research from a broad and diverse set of perspectives that seeks to address questions dealing with how organizations, public or private, interact with external actors including, among others, stakeholder groups, media outlets, regulatory organizations and political actors. Submissions can, for instance, explore the tools organizations apply to set specific agendas as well as the strategies formulated and implemented to manage specific issues. Within the realm of politics potential topics may include exploring the interface between public and private organizations as well as how firms implement strategies to deal with public sector organizations.

Dr. David Eduardo Cavazos
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • media
  • stakeholders
  • public relations
  • political strategy
  • agenda setting

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It Does Matter How You Get to the Top: Differentiating Status from Reputation
by Karen D. W. Patterson, David Eduardo Cavazos and Marvin Washington
Adm. Sci. 2014, 4(2), 73-86; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci4020073 - 04 Apr 2014
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Status and reputation have long been recognized as important influences in management research and recently much attention has been paid to defining the two concepts and understanding how they are utilized by organizations. However, few strategic management studies have identified the different methods [...] Read more.
Status and reputation have long been recognized as important influences in management research and recently much attention has been paid to defining the two concepts and understanding how they are utilized by organizations. However, few strategic management studies have identified the different methods through which status and reputation are constructed. While reputation has been linked with a history of quality, and status has been identified as an externally assigned measure of social position, empirical studies have been highly idiosyncratic in their identification of the mechanisms used to obtain either construct. This paper attempts to rectify that gap in the literature by identifying two distinct methods used to obtain reputation and status. We argue that certification contests can be used to increase organizational reputation and tournament rituals can be used to increase organizational status. We build theoretical propositions regarding the use of certification contexts and tournament rituals to show how reputation and status are achieved through similar, but distinct, methods and further the research on teasing apart these two important and intertwined concepts. Full article
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Managing Relational Legacies: Lessons from British Columbia, Canada
by Sofiane Baba and Emmanuel Raufflet
Adm. Sci. 2014, 4(1), 15-34; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci4010015 - 08 Jan 2014
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Issues related to company-community relations and the social license to operate have emerged as strategic business issues. This paper aims to contribute to the growing body of research on long-term company-community relations. An analysis of the relationship between Alcan (Aluminum of Canada, Montréal, [...] Read more.
Issues related to company-community relations and the social license to operate have emerged as strategic business issues. This paper aims to contribute to the growing body of research on long-term company-community relations. An analysis of the relationship between Alcan (Aluminum of Canada, Montréal, Canada part of Rio Tinto since 2007) with the Cheslatta Carrier First Nation in the Kemano-Kitimat area of northern British Columbia, Canada, provides three contributions. The first is related to the notion of relational legacy, which refers to the sedimentation of unresolved issues that have the potential to impede the realization of corporate activities and the reproduction of low levels of social license to operate. The second concerns stakeholder management. While the literature suggests that stakeholders should be managed by companies according to the degree of salience, this analysis suggests that researchers and managers should consider the evolution of the environmental context in their analyses. Third, the analysis suggests that small or marginalized groups, depicted by the stakeholder management literature as dormant stakeholders, should not be underestimated. Full article
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Relationships of the Trade Unions with the Media: The Lithuanian Case
by Asta Krašenkienė, Lina Kazokienė and Dalia Susnienė
Adm. Sci. 2014, 4(1), 1-14; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci4010001 - 03 Jan 2014
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The various practices of different countries show that, in order to achieve trade unions’ goals, working relationships with the media are very important, especially in terms of influencing public (stakeholder) opinion, as well as instilling confidence in trade unions. This paper presents some [...] Read more.
The various practices of different countries show that, in order to achieve trade unions’ goals, working relationships with the media are very important, especially in terms of influencing public (stakeholder) opinion, as well as instilling confidence in trade unions. This paper presents some examples and empirical research results that prove the significance of such relationships. The situation in Lithuania is analyzed based on qualitative research results. The results reveal that Lithuanian trade unions do not have effective tools at their disposal for the promotion of their activity. Moreover, their notion of their relationships with the media is limited to a narrow understanding such as “the article or broadcast in media”. Due to this and other reasons, the promotion of employers’ concessions is weak. Different situations can be noticed by analyzing the independent trade unions which use other practices and systems. Full article
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