Goals Of Stakeholders Research Articles

Convergence and divergence in science and practice of urban and rural forest restoration.

Forest restoration has never been higher on policymakers' agendas. Complex and multi-dimensional arrangements across the urban-rural continuum challenge restorationists and require integrative approaches to strengthen environmental protection and increase restoration outcomes. It remains unclear if urban and rural forest restoration are moving towards or away from each other in practice and research, and whether comparing research outcomes can help stakeholders to gain a clearer understanding of the interconnectedness between the two fields. This study aims to identify the challenges and opportunities for enhancing forest restoration in both urban and rural systems by reviewing the scientific evidence, engaging with key stakeholders and using an urban-rural forest restoration framework. Using the Society for Ecological Restoration's International Principles as discussion topics, we highlight aspects of convergence and divergence between the two fields to broaden our understanding of forest restoration and promote integrative management approaches to address future forest conditions. Our findings reveal that urban and rural forest restoration have convergent and divergent aspects. We emphasise the importance of tailoring goals and objectives to specific contexts and the need to design different institutions and incentives based on the social and ecological needs and goals of stakeholders in different regions. Additionally, we discuss the challenges of achieving high levels of ecological restoration and the need to go beyond traditional ecology to plan, implement, monitor, and adaptively manage restored forests. We suggest that rivers and watersheds could serve as a common ground linking rural and urban landscapes and that forest restoration could interact with other environmental protection measures. We note the potential for expanding the creative vision associated with increasing tree-containing environments in cities to generate more diverse and resilient forest restoration outcomes in rural settings. This study underscores the value of integrative management approaches in addressing future forest conditions across the urban-rural continuum. Our framework provides valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and decision-makers to advance the field of forest restoration and address the challenges of restoration across the urban-rural continuum. The rural-urban interface serves as a convergence point for forest restoration, and both urban and rural fields can benefit from each other's expertise.

Smart grid technologies and application in the sustainable energy transition: a review

ABSTRACT The smart grid is a product of the advances in computer and communication technology and power electronics that creates a more resilient, reliable and one that supports a two-way flow of electricity and information. The smart grid enables more uptake of the variable renewables like wind, solar and variable loads like the plug-in cars and improves the efficiency of power systems and facilitate several products and services supported by the grid like automatic healing and re-routing of power in case of a fault and demand side management. The deployment and use of smart grids will enhance the realization of shared goals of grid stakeholders, promote energy security, enable economic growth, and help in the mitigation of climate change.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MILITARY SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL ITEMS. THE CASE OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES

The paper discusses the characteristics of the management of medical military supply chain in the state of Israel, based on a mixed research method, quantitative and qualitative. The medical military supply chain has the mission to ensure the combat effectiveness and readiness of the military in times of peace and war. The paper approaches the management the supply chain of medical equipment for military hospitals using the modern management approach based on various multiple stakeholders goals and interests, such as the accuracy of inventory management and its influence on the end-user units of the field and operational competence of the operational units, how it can be used in the supply and centres and in the unit. The researchers formulate several recommendations about various ways how to cope with urgent and operational requests and to improve the management of the medical military supply chain.

Designing Iowa Agricultural Landscapes to Improve Environmental Co-Benefits of Bioenergy Production

Cellulosic bioenergy feedstocks are needed to improve carbon (C) management while provisioning biomass for bioproducts and biofuel. The transition to increased cellulosic biomass production can be guided by land management plans designed to improve economic, environmental, and ecological performance. We constructed a sustainability model to compare landscape designs for biofuel production from corn (Zea mays L.) stover and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) in central Iowa, USA. We used the model to compare environmental and socioeconomic outcomes associated with four landscape management strategies, with and without cellulosic biomass markets. We evaluated (1) a fuelshed area containing over 1.2 million ha (3 million acres) of corn and soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) within 80 km (50 miles) of a commercial-scale cellulosic biorefinery in Nevada, Iowa, and (2) the South Fork watershed containing over 72,000 ha (178,000 acres) of these row crops within eight north central Iowa HUC-12 (hydrologic unit code) watersheds. At both landscape scales, we found that it is possible to achieve multiple environmental and socioeconomic benefits concomitantly with cellulosic biomass production by strategically collecting corn stover and converting the 10% of the lowest-profitability row crop land to perennial switchgrass. Potential benefits from landscape design include increased biodiversity, soil and water quality improvements, increased soil carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation, and reduced fertilizer use and cost. Our model results showed that increasing benefits can accrue when complementary conservation practices (e.g., reduced tillage, use of a rye cover crop) are combined and integrated throughout a fuelshed or watershed area. We conclude that ecologically based landscape designs offer valuable insights about costs and benefits of land management alternatives, with relevance for achieving stakeholder goals.

Corporate entrepreneurship in HCL Technologies: managing the scaling-up challenges

Research methodology Data from HCL company and their corporate entrepreneurship activities were sourced using interviews and discussions. Secondary data was collected from the company website and other information available in the public domain. Case overview/synopsis This case narrates activities undertaken by the Enterprise Technology Office (ETO) of HCL Technologies Infrastructure Service Division to build the Corporate Entrepreneurship function. Around 2015–2016, the ETO started engaging with multiple people and organizations associated with the technology ecosystem outside the firm boundary for novel technologies and solutions. These entities included venture capitalists and start-ups. The ETO also began engaging with internal teams and existing customers to promote the identified novel technologies and innovative solutions. The ETO function grew organically by hiring resources from internal and external pools. ETO also undertook specific programs to increase the involvement of internal teams in their initiatives, like the Joint Exploration Program. ETO explored several options to further the ecosystem innovation strategy and institutionalize corporate entrepreneurship activities. The ETO team deliberated on ways to align the stakeholder goals and evaluate if technology could play a role. Complexity academic level This case can be used in any course on “Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation,” “Strategic Management of Technology Enterprises” or any course focused on managing technology and innovation for graduate (MBA) or executive participants.

The evolving value assessment of cancer therapies: Principles from the cancer community.

e13647 Background: Oncology-relevant measures of disease and treatment support earlier detection, accelerated drug development, and inform treatment pathways. To advance access to transformative treatments for people with cancer, especially those for early-stage cancers where medical intervention has the greatest opportunity to impact the course of the disease, the cancer community identified seven principles that support the evolution of value assessment frameworks. Here we summarize the five key principles. Methods: A group of 24 cancer community experts (9 oncologists, 6 patient advocacy leaders, 1 former regulator, 6 former payers, and 4 health economists) from 14 countries came together to discuss and build consensus on oncology-relevant value principles. Over five months, the expert group engaged via surveys, virtual discussion panels, and interviews. Results: The expert group developed seven consensus principles covering two areas: oncology-relevant endpoints to assess the value of treatments; and additional important value components and how they can be integrated into value assessments. The key 5 principles were oncology-relevant endpoints assessing clinical effectiveness, including the following three items. 1) Consider oncology-relevant endpoints, other than Overall Survival (OS), with intrinsic value for decision-making e.g., Event-, Disease-, or Relapse-Free Survival. 2) Continue to build evidence for endpoints that indicate treatment efficacy earlier e.g., pathologic Complete Response. 3) Develop evidence for the next generation of predictive measures that detect and monitor disease, e.g., circulating tumor DNA and Minimal Residual Disease. Additional value components supporting patient access include the following two items. 1) Use managed entry (type of access) agreements supported by ongoing real world evidence collection to help address decision-maker (regulator and Health Technology Assessment body) evidence needs. 2) Routinely use Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) in value assessments. Conclusions: To achieve the common goal of all cancer community stakeholders—improved outcomes for people with cancer—collaboration across the cancer community is essential to define how value is assessed, especially for early-stage cancer treatments. This is particularly important since mature OS data is not always available during initial decision-making, and decision-makers need to evolve which are the most appropriate endpoints. This supports measuring clinical impact, but also broader social, financial and ethical impact for patients, caregivers, healthcare systems, society, and the economy (not considered in this abstract). To achieve these goals, the expert group recommends: 1) increasing awareness and systematically engaging people with cancer in value assessments, 2) leveraging PROs in those assessments, and 3) further validation in clinical trials of oncology-relevant endpoints that could provide an earlier indication of clinical outcomes.

Family-type, Childhood Deprivations, Parenting Style, Single Parenting, Broken Home, Peer Influence and Sibling Rivalry as Correlates of Criminal Behaviour among Agodi Inmates, Nigeria

Crime is a problem that is almost as old as man. It has long since been the goal of many stakeholders to find the reason and solution to the problem of crime. Relevant professionals and bodies have still not reached a consensus on the reason for criminal behavior. The goal of this study is to identify any patterns or connections between family - type, single-parenting, parenting style, childhood deprivation, broken home, sibling rivalry, and peer influence and criminal behavior in order to find potential solutions to the problem of crime. The study uses a descriptive research design and involves a sample of 200 inmates selected through simple random sampling. A structured questionnaire consisting of measures of the family - type, single-parenting, broken home, childhood deprivations, sibling rivalry, parenting style, and peer influence was used to collect data. Three research questions were raised for the study and data collected was analyzed through the use of Multiple Regression Analysis, and Correlation tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there were significant relationships between family - type (r=0.642**; p<.05); followed by Peer influence (r=0.628**; p<.05); Broken home (r=0.595**; p<.05); Single - parenting (r=0.560**; p<.05); Childhood deprivation (r=0.551**; p<.05); Parenting style (r=0.547**; p<.05); Sibling rivalry (r=0.122**; p<.05) and criminal behaviors of inmates. Seven independent variables jointly contributed a total of 64.6% (adjusted R2=0.646) to the total variance of the criterion variable (criminal behavior of Agodi inmates, Nigeria). The independent variables made relative contributions to criminal behavior in the following order Family - type (?=0.246, t=6.910; P<0.05); Peer influence (?=0.242, t=7.235; P<0.05); Broken home (?=0.241, t=3.677; P<0.05); Single parenthood (?=0.235, t=3.651; P<0.05); Childhood deprivation (?=0.221, t=3.822; Parenting style (?=0.189, t=0.1.4.370; P<0.05); and finally, Sibling rivalry (?=0.080, t=3.019; P<0.05). This study found that the independent variables contribute significantly to criminal behavior among inmates in Agodi, Nigeria. It suggests that if the situation of families and homes continues to deteriorate, criminal behavior will also continue to increase. The study recommends providing orientation to the public on the role of the family in shaping an individual’s behavior and the causes and effects of criminal behavior in order to address the issue.

A multi-objective approach for reducing Patient’s inconvenience in a generalized home healthcare delivery setup

In this work, we present a mixed-integer programming model for a multi-objective home healthcare delivery problem. The proposed problem is modeled with minimum assumptions about the procedure attributes and can handle most of the commonly imposed restrictions in the field of home healthcare delivery. Under the imposed restrictions, the model is designed to provide selection (for caregivers and patients), assignment, scheduling, and routing decisions. In addition to some minor modifications in ‘workload balance’ constraints, a major focus of the work is to improve the quality of the schedule for the selected patients. To achieve this, we define and calculate the inconvenience caused by the unnecessarily scattered visits and their overlap with the patient-specific inconvenient time window. The model minimizes the total inconvenience cost for patients against the competitive goals of other stakeholders. Higher net profit, minimum loss of employed labor, balanced workload among staff, and maximization of fully served patients have been included as the other objectives. To solve the instances of the proposed home healthcare delivery problem, an efficient implementation for a reference point-based non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-III) is developed. After extensive parameter tuning using the Taguchi method of experimental design, the algorithm is used for generating a diverse set of non-dominated solutions for the decision-maker. In addition to the comparing the performance of NGSA-III with Multi-objective particle swarm optimization and Multi-objective grey wolf optimizer, experiments are also carried out to establish the relationship between patient convenience and net profit.

Leading change in practice: how “longitudinal prebriefing” nurtures and sustains in situ simulation programs

In situ simulation (ISS) programs deliver patient safety benefits to healthcare systems, however, face many challenges in both implementation and sustainability. Prebriefing is conducted immediately prior to a simulation activity to enhance engagement with the learning activity, but is not sufficient to embed and sustain an ISS program. Longer-term and broader change leadership is required to engage colleagues, secure time and resources, and sustain an in situ simulation program. No framework currently exists to describe this process for ISS programs. This manuscript presents a framework derived from the analysis of three successful ISS program implementations across different hospital systems. We describe eight change leadership steps adapted from Kotter’s change management theory, used to sustainably implement the ISS programs analyzed. These steps include the following: (1) identifying goals of key stakeholders, (2) engaging a multi-professional team, (3) creating a shared vision, (4) communicating the vision effectively, (5) energizing participants and enabling program participation, (6) identifying and celebrating early success, (7) closing the loop on early program successes, and (8) embedding simulation in organizational culture and operations. We describe this process as a “longitudinal prebrief,” a framework which provides a step-by-step guide to engage colleagues and sustain successful implementation of ISS.

Measuring and Evaluating Organizational Innovation Capacity and Performance from Systemic and Sustainability-Oriented Perspective

In the last decades, several multidimensional models for measuring and evaluating the innovation capacity and performance of organisations have been designed by researchers and consulting firms and adopted by established innovative organisations worldwide. However, the topic of measurement and evaluation models that are designed for sustainability-oriented innovation management has remained underexplored by researchers and practitioners. From this perspective, this work proposes a conceptual model for measuring and evaluating the sustainability-oriented innovation capacity (SOIC) and performance (SOIP) of established organisations, guided by the following principles: a multidimensional structure, stakeholder goal orientation, interdependence and feedback loop analyses, innovation process orientation and ease of implementation and use. In line with these principles, the proposed model combines the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework with a hybrid multicriteria methodological approach. Furthermore, it considers the interdependencies between the key innovation indicators (KIIs), which are classified according to four perspectives of an adapted BSC framework. The proposed conceptual model, and the empirical results that demonstrate its applicability in an organisational context, may contribute to improving the current practices for measuring and evaluating the SOIC and SOIP, which could help organisations to adjust their strategies to create sustainable value for the new era of business.

IMPLEMENTING FUNCTION-FOCUSED CARE IN THE HOSPITAL: LESSONS LEARNED

Abstract The mentorship provided by the nurse interventionist is an important implementation strategy to support Function-focused care adoption in hospitalized older adults with dementia. The nurse interventionist works with unit champions and interdisciplinary stakeholder teams over a 12 month period. The first interaction includes using a brainstorming approach to develop unit-specific goals to support the integration of function-focused care into routine care delivery. Implementation strategies at the unit level include flexible staff training, involving staff in evaluations of care interactions, targeting pragmatic measures, and a feedback loop. Based on content analysis of field notes we will describe stakeholder goals established, action plans, and barriers and facilitators to meet goals in four hospital units. Key findings include the influence of leadership support, communication strategies, engagement of direct care staff, interdisciplinary collaboration, access to human and material resources, and contextual factors within the hospital setting (including pandemic-related challenges).

Capital structure and speed of adjustment: the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance

Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of sustainable practices as proxied by the environmental, social and governance (ESG) score on capital structure. It also investigates whether ESG performance influences the speed of adjustment (SOA) to target leverage in firms. Design/methodology/approach The sample covers 116 non-financial firms listed on the main stock exchanges from five Southeast ASEAN countries (Bursa Malaysia, Indonesia Stock Exchange, Philippines Stock Exchange, Singapore Stock Exchange and Stock Exchange of Thailand) over the period 2012–2019. The study adopts the OLS regression and system-GMM estimators to perform the data analysis. Findings The authors show that the ESG score is positively associated with book leverage, suggesting that firms increase their debt capital through sustainable practices. However, they find that the ESG score is negatively associated with market leverage across our model estimations. The authors also reveal that environmental, social and governance pillar scores produce about 7.82%, 2.88% and 0.47% SOAs, respectively, higher than the SOA of the traditional SOA without the ESG factor. The aggregate ESG score has about 3.41% SOA higher than the baseline SOA without the ESG factor. Practical implications This study is of interest to investors, corporate firms and policymakers. The study demonstrates that the ESG score increases the firm’s SOA to target leverage. By disaggregating the ESG score, the authors establish that ESG pillar scores produce higher SOAs than the traditional SOA (without ESG), with the environmental score inducing the fastest SOA. Practically, the study implies that environmentally sustainable activities reduce environmental transaction costs, benefit firms through better information transparency and enhance a trustful climate between the firm and suppliers of capital. Therefore, this study demonstrates that firms do not only incur the cost of disseminating ESG information but also benefit from lower information asymmetry and a higher SOA with better tax-deductible advantages. Social implications The findings have combined advantages for both stakeholders and directors who monitor and manage the firms’ resources to improve the quality of ESG practices and initiatives. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is among the first to establish that sustainable practices induce higher debt capital. Secondly, unlike prior research focusing on the cost of capital, the authors examine whether ESG performance affects capital structure patterns. Thirdly, it documents the extent to which sustainable practices influence the SOA towards target leverage in firms. The authors contribute to corporate finance literature that firms reach faster to their target leverage in the presence of ESG performance. Theoretically, through the notion of the stakeholder proposition, the study establishes that the firms’ pursuance of stakeholder goals further enhances the prediction of the trade-off theory.

Integrating multiple perspectives in marine spatial planning using the GIS-based Logic Scoring of Preference method

Marine spatial planning processes require integrating diverse opinions, knowledge, and goals of multiple stakeholders as well as large volumes of environmental data. Multicriteria evaluation (MCE) methods have been used to combine spatial data in a way that represents stakeholder preferences; however, conventional methods are limited in their ability to represent and integrate multiple stakeholder perspectives. The main goal of this research study is to implement a generalized multicriteria evaluation method, Logic Scoring of Preference (LSP), integrated with geographic information systems (GIS) to represent different perspectives on the suitability for conservation areas for endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca). Both two and three dimensional (3D) criteria have been used for killer whale acoustic refugia suitability analysis in the study region of the Salish Sea between British Columbia, Canada and Washington, USA. Resulting suitability values were then combined in an overall integrated suitability analysis (OISA) to represent different decision-making outcomes such as consensus and trade-offs, logically defined by LSP aggregators, between stakeholders’ perspectives. The results demonstrate the ability of the Logic Scoring of Preference method to derive overall integrated suitability maps using a variety of logical aggregators. This method can be applied to facilitate marine spatial planning by enabling stakeholders and decision makers to explore, analyse and visualize possible decision scenarios and their trade-offs.

Socio-Technical and Political Complexities: Findings from Two Case Studies of Large IT Project-Based Organizations

Information technology (IT) projects are becoming more complex due to technological advancements, increased sociopolitical demand, and competition. In recent years, the project complexity field has attracted increasing attention with diverse strategies and methods proposed to identify, evaluate, and respond to various complexities. This study aims to identify and prioritize factors contributing to complexity in IT projects by reporting two case studies conducted on large IT organizations. The literature on project complexity informed and guided this exploratory research. The data were collected through 21 semi-structured interviews and analyzed by applying open and axial coding content analysis. Underpinned by complexity theories, 19 factors contributing to the complexity of IT projects were identified, and their importance was highlighted using the Friedman test. The top five factors contributing to IT project complexity were identified as follows: the diversity of stakeholders; technological newness of the project; conflicting goals of stakeholders; variety of product sub-systems and components; and uncertainty of project objectives. This study’s findings contribute to the project management literature and inform practitioners about how to achieve more effective management of complex IT projects.

Are lakes a public good or exclusive resource? Towards value-based management for aquatic invasive species

Invasive species are a prominent driver of global environmental change and management of biological invasions is a complex issue that requires attention to social and ecological contexts. Management efforts implemented without consideration of social dimensions have often been delayed or have failed due to community resistance. Despite this, much invasive species research has focused solely on the ecological dynamics of invasions. To advance our understanding of the social dimensions of efforts to confront invasive species, we analyze decision-making among stakeholders impacted by starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa), a freshwater alga and key emerging invader in lakes in the upper midwestern US that, to our knowledge, has not been explored in the human dimensions of invasive species literature. Through a content analysis of 46 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders associated with lakes invaded by N. obtusa in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, we assess stakeholders’ management preferences and the factors that shape both preferences and current practices. We examine current management strategies, perceptions of the importance of addressing starry stonewort, and stakeholder goals, as well as motivational and structural factors that shape and potentially limit decision-making. We highlight two “lake ethics” that emerge from our results where stakeholders see lakes as either a public good or an exclusive resource. We present a typology of these two distinct lake ethics and explore their implications for future efforts to manage N. obtusa, suggesting that managers should move towards value-based approaches that consider underlying community values tied to natural resources.

Informative Storytelling with Provenance Research Sources

Provenance has underpinned archival practice in America across the past century, guiding archivists in the arrangement, description, and accessioning of new and legacy collections. Provenance research is a necessary step taken to secure pending donations and title information, and ultimately tell the story of the object’s journey to the current possessor. Across four domains of key interest in the “Developing Extensible Methods for Provenance Research” project, we examine source-specific methods that are most useful to practitioners, and communicate them in an open educational resource (OER) meant to broaden access and awareness of provenance research among administrators and students engaging with collections. Our poster will demonstrate how archival workers seek and then combine information laboriously gathered from photographs, legal documents, and handwritten materials among other resources in creative, inventive, and engaging ways that invite visitors into stories that the objects – if only they are displayed – can tell about our shared pasts and futures. Such information sources can serve a multitude of stakeholder goals, e.g. employing datapoints about transfers and handoffs to encourage object-based learning, transparency, and accountability.

Informative Storytelling with Provenance Research Sources

Provenance has underpinned archival practice in America across the past century, guiding archivists in the arrangement, description, and accessioning of new and legacy collections. Provenance research is a necessary step taken to secure pending donations and title information, and ultimately tell the story of the object’s journey to the current possessor. Across four domains of key interest in the “Developing Extensible Methods for Provenance Research” project, we examine source-specific methods that are most useful to practitioners, and communicate them in an open educational resource (OER) meant to broaden access and awareness of provenance research among administrators and students engaging with collections. Our poster will demonstrate how archival workers seek and then combine information laboriously gathered from photographs, legal documents, and handwritten materials among other resources in creative, inventive, and engaging ways that invite visitors into stories that the objects – if only they are displayed – can tell about our shared pasts and futures. Such information sources can serve a multitude of stakeholder goals, e.g. employing datapoints about transfers and handoffs to encourage object-based learning, transparency, and accountability.

Applied aspects of time series models for predicting residential property prices in Bulgaria

Accurate housing price forecasts play a critical role in balancing supply and demand in the residential real estate market, as well as in achieving the goals of various stakeholders – buyers, investors, construction contractors, public administration, real estate agencies, special investment purpose companies, etc. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between specific predictors and build a suitable model for forecasting housing prices in Bulgaria. In this regard, a study was conducted on transactions with residential real estate in the city of Sofia for the period from the first quarter of 2016 to the fourth quarter of 2021. The ARIMA model is used in the development to predict the values of the variables. Eight models are tested for the researched factors (24 in total). On this basis, the price per square meter of residential property was predicted, including estimated values from the ARIMA model for the parameters involved in the regression equation. The result showed that there is a strong relationship between the analyzed predictors and the studied variable – price per square meter of housing. The tested models are adequate and the statistical requirements for forecasting the prices of residential properties in Bulgaria are complied.

A Study on Priority Goals of Stakeholders for Smart City Projects: An Application of AHP Methodology

A Study on Priority Goals of Stakeholders for Smart City Projects: An Application of AHP Methodology

Stakeholder approach to the innovative development of unified heat supply organizations

Introduction. The provision that any economic entity in the economic system does not exist separately from the environment that surrounds it creates the need for the functioning and development of the organization to take into account the goals of the main stakeholders. The object of this study is unified heat supply organizations, acting as one of the participants in heat supply, which is legally responsible for the modernization and technological development of heat supply in a certain territory. The interaction of unified heat supply organizations with other economic entities and holders of interests necessarily influences the nature and intensity of modernization and technological development, and their innovative development. The purpose of the study is to identify groups of stakeholders whose interaction is important for the innovative development of unified heat supply organizations, as well as to determine their main goals and interests in order to be able to take them into account when developing a mechanism for managing the innovative development of unified heat supply organizations.
 
 Materials and methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was the work of Russian and foreign researchers in the field of the concept of stakeholders and the stakeholder approach to management. The methods of empirical and theoretical research were used in the study.
 
 Results. The study of the approaches of Russian and foreign authors to the classification of stakeholders allowed us to form a list of the main stakeholders, interaction with which is important for the innovative development of unified heat supply organizations, as well as to highlight their main goals and interests, which is of interest, since identification, structuring and building a map of possible stakeholders allow us to evaluate the options for the functioning and development of the object of study from the point of view of existing interest groups and their influence.
 
 Conclusions. A systematic approach to the management of groups interested in the innovative development of unified heat supply organizations, based on the optimality criterion, should become an important factor in the development of a management mechanism for the process under consideration.