Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of the study is to examine the stakeholder identification (SI) methods used in building projects procured by private corporate organisations in Southwestern Nigeria to draw a correlation between methods used for SI and project performance in the study area, thereby enhancing project performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a census survey to purposively select 30 projects managers (who indicated from a first-stage questionnaire) that they have participated in structured stakeholder management (SM) from a list of 106 project managers and client representatives who have been involved in SM of building projects procured by private corporate organisations between 2008 and 2017 in the study area. A second-stage questionnaire was designed to elicit information from the respondents. The quantitative data that were collected were analysed using mean score (MS) analysis and Analysis of variance (ANOVA).FindingsThe study found that brainstorming in group meetings (MS = 4.33), interviews with the expert (MS = 3.20) and identification by other stakeholders (MS = 3.00) are the most frequently used SI methods in the study area. It was also found that the use of a questionnaire (MS = 0.87), Delphi method (MS = 0.80) and public hearing (MS = 0.57) was rare for SI in the study area. A further result showed that there was no significant difference in the opinion of project managers on 85% of methods used for SI in the study area irrespective of the procurement method employed.Practical implicationsThe study examined the methods project managers used for SI on building projects procured by private corporate organisations to advocate for more robust and all-inclusive SI methods.Originality/valueThe study empirically examined methods used for SI and correlated them to project performance.
Highlights
A stakeholder is defined as an individual, coalition of individuals or firm that participates in a particular organisation, project, system, etc., mostly because they have invested money in such an organisation (Hornby, 2014)
The results indicated that all the respondents had the required academic and professional qualifications to supply the information required of them
The study further concluded that the methods used for SI in the study area are not robust enough to engender extensive and exhaustive SI, since methods such as public hearing, the snowballing method, Delphi method, the use of questionnaire and self-selection in response to an advertisement are rarely used for stakeholder identification; there is a chance of omission of important stakeholders which could result in poor project performance
Summary
A stakeholder is defined as an individual, coalition of individuals or firm that participates in a particular organisation, project, system, etc., mostly because they have invested money in such an organisation (Hornby, 2014). Several strategic management pieces of research have grouped the various definitions of a stakeholder into descriptive/analytical and normative approaches (Friedman and Miles, 2006). © Nathaniel Ayinde Olatunde, Imoleayo Abraham Awodele and Henry Agboola Odeyinka. Published in Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
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