Performance Indicators (ESPIs) in minerals development, vol. 5, chapter 7 : extract from the PhD thesis of Miles Watkins
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2002
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This thesis is a result of a three-year study on the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS) in a UK quarrying company. The thesis follows a transition in the epistemological approach of the author, from the following of a discrete project framework to one of a conducting a phenomenological investigation. The original project brief detailed that 'stakeholders' were to participate
in the development of the EMS. The subsequent thesis examined the underpinning of the term 'stakeholders' from both a theoretical and empirical perspective.
Fundamentally, the thesis is constructed of an investigation into the assumptions of the original project brief.
As a result of this transition, the thesis is about stakeholder theory. Taking the concept of 'stakeholders in a firm', the investigation discusses how there are limitations to the implementation of such a theory. It demonstrates that the firm is not a relevant unit of analysis in terms of stakeholder theory...
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MINING, STAKEHOLDERS