Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement

Johanna Järvelä, Ville-Pekka Sorsa and André Spicer
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Johanna Järvelä: LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - ULCO - Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Ville-Pekka Sorsa: Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
André Spicer: Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki

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Abstract: Our understanding of how public actors directly influence stakeholder engagement through mechanisms such as regulation and licensing has been steadily improving. However, the indirect influence of public governance measures on stakeholder engagement remains less explored. This article seeks to bridge this gap by examining how public sector actors use participatory governance to influence private stakeholder engagement beyond public governance processes. We introduce the concept of silent steering to describe how indirect effects on stakeholder engagement occur. Through an in-depth case study of Finnish mining governance from 1995 to 2020, we uncover how silent steering of private engagement occurs through role-giving, example-giving, and expectation-giving. Through these processes, public actors can exert significant influence over industry- and firm-level private stakeholder engagement processes even when they are not present.

Date: 2024-09-15
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Published in Business and Society, 2024, 64 (6), pp.1229-1260. ⟨10.1177/00076503241274056⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/00076503241274056

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