The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

Karin Buhmann (Syddansk Universitet, Denmark.), Alberto Fonseca, Nathan Andrews , Giuseppe Amatulli

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Routledge
01 November 2024

Business strategy; Project management; Production & quality control management; Sales & marketing; Organisational theory & behaviour

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE) is both a concept and a management approach, drawing on a combination of theoretical and applied knowledge areas (e.g., impact assessment, business and human rights, and stakeholder theory). MSE has become a key element of corporate sustainability risk-based due diligence as a process that responsible business enterprises are expected to apply to identify and manage harmful impacts on the environment and society.

Despite the obvious and growing relevance of meaningful stakeholder engagement, few publications have tried to synthesize the knowledge, academic literature, and practical experience within and around the concept and practices. This volume responds to that knowledge gap through the provision of comprehensive interdisciplinary perspectives. Embodying a rights-holder orientation, The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement emphasizes the importance of MSE for stakeholders who are or can be affected by activities driven by external actors, such as natural resource extraction or processing; infrastructure; development proposals, planning and implementation; and production for industry or consumption.

This handbook offers four thematic sections, all interdisciplinary in character, seeking to explore the multiple aspects of MSE. Moreover, a comprehensive introductory chapter explains key elements of the concept and causes for the current surge in expectations of MSE, including a rise in demands of risk-based due diligence. More than 40 international contributors combine theory and practice in chapters that discuss and elaborate the theory and practice of MSE. Uniquely, each section includes short practice notes based on experiences or dilemmas lived by practitioners or affected people, placing real-life situations into theoretical context. The concluding chapter draws up key insights from the chapters and practice notes, and casts a path for the future of MSE integrating values, norms, and practice.

Cutting across multiple disciplines including stakeholder theory, natural resource management, impact assessment, project management, ESG, responsible business, and global value chains, The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement will be an essential resource for scholars, researchers, developers, investors, affected people, civil society organizations, students, and others.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Karin Buhmann (Syddansk Universitet Denmark.), Alberto Fonseca, Nathan Andrews, Giuseppe Amatulli
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032482675
ISBN 10: 1032482672
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karin Buhmann is Professor of Business & Human Rights at Copenhagen Business School (CBS); and Professor and Director of the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice at the University of Southern Denmark. Buhmann’s expertise covers business responsibilities for human rights, including risk-based (corporate sustainability) due diligence and its elements, in particular meaningful stakeholder engagement and what this entails from the perspective of rights-holders; ideals and practice of ‘smart-mix regulation’; human rights and related social issues in regard to climate change and a fair and just transition; regulatory strategies to advance responsible business conduct (RBC), including and non-financial reporting as a potential driver of organizational change. Buhmann has published widely in international journals, edited volumes, and monographs. She leads collaborative and international research projects and networks on sustainability governance and meaningful stakeholder engagement, connecting scholars in the Global South and the High North (Arctic). Alberto Fonseca is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. He is a former president and scientific director of the Brazilian Association for Impact Assessment. He held positions in the private and public sectors working with EIA, licensing, and auditing in dozens of projects and industrial sites. His current consulting and research interests are centered on policy evaluation, EIA policy making, sustainability assessment, spatial analysis, and territorial planning. Alberto is also an Associate Editor for the journal Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Nathan Andrews is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. A key aspect of Dr. Andrews’ research focuses on the global political economy/ecology of natural resource extraction and development. His peer-reviewed publications on this topic have appeared in journals such as International Affairs, Resources Policy, World Development, among others. Dr. Andrews’ latest books include a monograph, Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana (2019), a co-authored monograph, Oil and Development in Ghana: Beyond the Resource Curse (2021), and co-edited volumes, Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? (2022) and Extractive Bargains: Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus (2023). Dr. Andrews serves as co-editor in chief of African Security. Giuseppe Amatulli is a postdoctoral fellow in the Rebuilding First Nations Governance (RFNG) Research Project, whose main goal is to enhance the capacity building of those First Nations who want to transition from the Indian Act to self-governance. Giuseppe has been doing research with and for Doig River First Nation since 2019; his research methodology, anchored in a strong community-based approach, allows him to perform cutting-edge qualitative research (using various methods such as ethnography, participatory observation, interviews, and discourse analysis) at the intersection of socio-legal and environmental anthropology, intertwined with Human Rights Law, Indigenous Governance, and Public Policy. Giuseppe obtained his PhD in Anthropology from Durham University (2023).

Reviews for The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

How wonderful to have a book written with an unashamedly normative focus on meaningful engagement with affected stakeholders. And how necessary that this book is not just conceptually rigorous but immersed in practice and with a global reach. Kudos to the authors. I will be pulling the Routledge International Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement off my shelf for many years to come. Professor Michelle Greenwood, Monash Business School, Monash University This is one of the most welcome contributions to the business and human rights scholarship since the UN Guiding Principles themselves. The theoretical and practical assessments of a BHR concept as pivotal as meaningful stakeholder engagement in this book provides the sort of invaluable knowledge that every stakeholder needs for realizing the ideals of the UNGPs. Professor Michael K. Addo, University of Notre Dame Law School; former Member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights The term “stakeholder” burst onto the corporate responsibility scene in the mid-1980s. Widely used, but rarely theorised, this volume focuses the analytical lens on the concept itself. Brimming with ideas, the various chapters (and practice notes) explore the challenges associated with powerful actors categorising affected stakeholders to “engage” with them “meaningfully”. Readers are urged to reflect on the origins of these three concepts and the implications of their interaction across an expansive range of sectors and research settings. Professor Deanna Kemp, The University of Queensland