Stakeholder Management in the Context of SDGs: Collaborative Approaches to Global Sustainability Challenges

Abstract

The international effort toward alleviating acute socio-economic and environmental issues is based on the drawing on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which was approved in 2015. The achievement of these goals should be made through collective action of different stakeholders, including governments, corporations, the civil society and communities. The stakeholder management in the current paper is explored as a facilitating prospect, which is required by the SDG implementation and is concerned with the collaboration strategies that enhance communication, trust and resource sharing. The study is based on the mixed-methods research, which presupposes the application of the qualitative case study and quantitative survey (the utilization of two approaches) to investigate the efficiency of the stakeholder engagement techniques implemented in SDG-oriented project. The results demonstrate that programs created through the multi-stakeholder partnerships are better goal congruence, resource efficiency and encourage innovation, but contradictory interests, resource limitations and the birth of some governing gaps remain. The research also has practical implications to policymakers and organizations and thus gives a blueprint on how to effectively engage the stakeholders to hasten sustainable development. Such limitations as relying on self-reported data, emphasis on chosen SDGs may be removed, and observations can be further used in the context of longitudinal research and different cultural backgrounds