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The main focus of the who question of systemic thinking is on the stakeholders associated with our mess . This chapter discusses our approach for the analysis and management of stakeholders . This introduction provides a brief background of stakeholder analysis and an introduction to our approach to stakeholder analysis and management , which is then followed by a detailed discussion of each of these steps. Finally, a framework for stakeholder analysis and management is presented and demonstrated.
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Hester, P.T., Adams, K.M. (2017). The Who of Systemic Thinking. In: Systemic Decision Making. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54672-8_6
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