Towards an Iterative and Longitudinal Methodology for Analyzing Stakeholders within a Project Context

Authors

  • Julien Bousquet UQAC - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada
  • Christophe Leyrie Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada
  • Thierno Diallo Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

Keywords:

project management, communication, stakeholders, media prominence score

Abstract

The concept of “Stakeholders” has evolved since its popularization by Freeman in the mid 1980s. Since then,interest in stakeholders has grown within the field of project management andit has become an important research topic. Many researchers have focused on identifying and analyzing stakeholders with the aim of developing tools tofacilitate their strategic management. However, some researchers have highlighted limitations of the key processes of identification and analysis proposed, due in part to the growing number and type of project participants. Moreover, few studies take time into account when identifying the many various stakeholders involved over aproject’s lifetime. In light of this, this article proposes an iterative and longitudinal approach based on an innovative index - media prominence score -which can be used to define key moments of the cycle of analysis.

Author Biographies

  • Julien Bousquet, UQAC - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

    Julien Bousquet, Ph.D., is a marketing professor at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi (UQAC) since 2003. He earned a Ph.D. in administration at the University of Quebec at Montréal (UQAM). He is actually director of the project management master’s degree and director of the Multidisciplinary studies in project management (www.uqa.ca/lemgp). His main areas of research focus principally on relationship project (marketing and communication theories applied to project management) and stakeholders management.

  • Christophe Leyrie, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

    Christophe Leyrie has been a professor of project management at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi since 2000. He obtained a Master of Science in project management from Université du Québec à Montréal in Québec, Canada, and a Doctorate of Science in business from Université Jean Moulin-Lyon3 in France. He is a member of Multidisciplinary studies laboratory in project management (http://www.uqac.ca/lemgp) where his research interests center on project stakeholder management, organizational politics in projects and project leadership.

  • Thierno Diallo, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

    Thierno Diallo is Professor of Economics at University of Quebec (UQAC) where he has been since 2005. He received a B.A and M.A. from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) in France and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Montreal, Canada in 2006. He worked at National Economics Research Associates (NERA, Inc) in Boston (USA) as a Senior Economist. He is currently a member of Multidisciplinary studies laboratory in project management (http://www.uqac.ca/lemgp) where his research interests center on project stakeholder analysis and project financial and economic analysis and impact assessment.

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2022-05-20

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2013): The Journal of Modern Project Management

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Towards an Iterative and Longitudinal Methodology for Analyzing Stakeholders within a Project Context. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 1(2). https://journalmodernpm.com/manuscript/index.php/jmpm/article/view/120

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