Consensus Building for Long-term Sustainability in the Non-North American Context: Reflecting on a Stakeholder Process in Japan
| Autor: | Masahiro Matsuura, Kenshi Baba |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Process (engineering)
business.industry Strategy and Management Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Stakeholder Context (language use) Interpersonal communication 010501 environmental sciences Public relations 01 natural sciences Negotiation Promotion (rank) Political science 0502 economics and business Sustainability Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory Social science business 050203 business & management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 9:256-268 |
| ISSN: | 1750-4708 |
| Popis: | Practitioners of consensus building are stepping into a relatively new arena of practice: sustainability issues in the non-North American context. This article explores challenges in such settings, which we illustrate, with a case in Japan regarding the promotion of wood biomass usage through stakeholder dialogue in a small island community. Reflection from the experience reveals two challenges that are likely to occur in similar contexts: drawing the attention of stakeholders to the long-term risks to sustainability and dealing with personal relationships in a high-power-distance culture. We find that in our case and more generally stakeholders’ problem recognition related to risk must be nurtured through learning opportunities and scenario exercises in the early stages of consensus building processes. The hierarchical nature of interpersonal communication in several Asian countries, where senior participants enjoy more power in negotiation, also requires careful design of processes, particularly when long-term issues are at stake. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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