Description

Radical transactiveness is a way of snow-ball sampling to identify fringe stakeholders. Radical transactiveness is a dynamic capability which seeks to systematically identify, explore, and integrate the views of stakeholders on the “fringe”—the poor, weak, isolated, non-legitimate, and even non-human—for the express purpose of managing disruptive change and building imagination about future competitive business models¹⁾Hart SL, Sharma S, Engaging fringe stakeholders for competitive imagination, Academy of Management Executive, 2004, Vol18, No 1²⁾Reed, M.S., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C.H. and Stringer, L.C. (2009) Who’s in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management, Journal of Environmental Management 90, 1933-1949³⁾Hermans LM, 2005, Actor Analysis for Water Resources Management, putting the promise into practice, ISBN 90-5972-091-1, Eburon, 2005.

Strengths

• Systematical approach
• A way to include all stakeholders
• It identifies stakeholders and issues that might otherwise be missed and minimizes risks to the future of the project

Weaknesses

• It is time-consuming

Use in decision framework

Stakeholder analysis

Input

This method requires involvement and input of earlier defined stakeholders.

Outline

• Start with a few earlier defined stakeholders during for example interviews
• Ask these stakeholders to name new stakeholders names, organizations and categories.
• Use their contacts in order to reach the new stakeholders
• A comprehensive list of stakeholders and categories can be made. Based on budget and time a decision can be made who should be involved. For a good understanding it is recommended to objectively and critically analyse who are the stakeholders that eventually are to be included in the analysis (and who are not) ⁴⁾Reed, M.S., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C.H. and Stringer, L.C. (2009) Who’s in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management, Journal of Environmental Management 90, 1933-1949⁵⁾Hermans LM, 2005, Actor Analysis for Water Resources Management, putting the promise into practice, ISBN 90-5972-091-1, Eburon, 2005.

Output

Identify new stakeholders and new issues that might otherwise be missed and minimizes risks to the future of the project.