Identification and mapping of project stakeholders: criteria and methods

• Authors: W. Downar

Abstracts

EN

A key issue for stakeholder management is to determine who, to what extent and why can influence a project. Proper identification of stakeholders and their classification according to the criteria adopted allows for defining their hierarchy, strength and impact on the project. This, in turn, conditions the development of a strategy for dealing with individual stakeholder groups. The definitions of the concept of a stakeholder have been reviewed to determine the identification criteria. The article also attempts to systematize methods of qualifying stakeholders, depending on the number of differentiation criteria. The methods used for the qualification of stakeholders are often presented graphically.

Keywords

EN

stakeholders; mapping; project management

• Publisher: Akademia Wojsk Lądowych imienia generała Tadeusza Kościuszki
• Journal: Scientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 1(187)
• Pages: 165-179

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

W. Downar

• Faculty of Management and Economics of Services, University of Szczecin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0011.7370

Biblioteka Nauki

30147182