SRFP045: Exploring the Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Processes To Manage Competing Interests in Multi-Stakeholder Governed Networks
Jamie DeMore, MA; Tracie Barnett, PhD; Peter Nugus, PhD, BA, MA, MEd; Sabrina Wong, PhD, RN; Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, PhD
Abstract
Context: Multi-stakeholder governance is a practice that brings different stakeholders together to address jointly perceived challenges or operations through dialogue, decision-making, and solution implementation. The added legitimacy from diverse input, consensus, and co-constructed solutions provides a fertile foundation for more effective solution implementation. It is, however, difficult to manage competing interests in multi-stakeholder governed organizations and networks. There is currently no published evidence concerning a framework of strategic stakeholder engagement processes for practitioners to apply in their multi-stakeholder governed organizations and networks in order to manage competing interests. This is particularly relevant in primary care where stakeholder engagement is more of a norm in clinical practice, research and network governance. Before designing an interventional study to develop the framework, we must better understand how primary health care networks currently engage with their stakeholders in the literature. Therefore, it is crucial to demystify the strategic stakeholder engagement processes and activities that primary health care research networks currently employ. Obective: To synthesize current published evidence about how multi-stakeholder governed primary health care networks presently engage with their various stakeholders. Literature Review Design and Data Synthesis: Mixed studies scoping review that focuses on published scholarly works to be identified in major medical and social science databases: Medline, EMBASE, PyscINFO, Proquest, and Web of Science. Following the PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews checklist, a narrative synthesis will be performed that will involve thematic analysis, potential conceptual mapping, and reflection on the synthesis process while using the principles of Stakeholder Theory as a theoretical framework to guide the analysis. Expected Contributions: This mixed studies scoping review will help meaningfully synthesize current knowledge about the current stakeholder engagement processes within multi-stakeholder governed primary health care networks. The review will also constitute the foundation of a larger research project that will identify what are some of the strategic stakeholder engagement processes for multi-stakeholder governed networks to manage competing stakeholder interests.
Viv Ramsden
viv.ramsden@usask.ca 11/21/2021Jamie, great topic and very important as we move large systems forward in the future. Do you think co-production with patient-partners might play a part in the development of a governance framework given there is little or not literature? I look forward to reading the results. Hope all is well in your world. Best...