Att ha kunskap om vilka stakeholders som spelar en viktig roll och därmed förtjänar organisationsledningens uppmärksamhet har visats vara extremt viktigt för en organisations framgång. Mitchell et al (1997) presenterar ett ramverk som introducerar sju stakeholder-typer baserat på tre attribut; power, legitimacy och urgency. Modellen bestämmer stakeholder salience, hur viktig en stakeholder är, baserat på hur många av dessa tre attribut denna tillskrivs. I en vidareutveckling av modellen insamlas data i denna studie genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer med verkställande direktörer för svenska småbolag, i syfte att utöka kunskapen om vilka stakeholders som spelar roll för bolagen inom denna viktiga och växande sektor. Fem småbolag i skilda branscher studeras, och studiens kvalitativt insamlade data resulterar i en ny två-stegsmodell; en för avgörande av stakeholder salience, och en för kravprioritering. Power visas vara viktigast för stakeholder salience, följt av ett helt nytt attribut; utbytbarhet. Legitimacy delas upp i två delar; stakeholder legitimacy och kravets legitimacy, som är avgörande i varsin del av modellen.  Urgency visas för småbolag endast vara aktuellt i modellens andra del, kravprioritering.

The aim of this study was to develop knowledge about the librarians role as a stakeholder to a current research information system (CRIS). These systems can be seen as a possibility to manage the vast amount of information that surrounds research projects and this investigation directed focus to the system Chalmers Research that was developed by a project group in the library of Chalmers University of Technology. The librarians of Chalmers were sent a survey and four of them were interviewed about their involvement in the work with Research. The study has had an abductive approach with stakeholder analysis as a theoretical framework. The result from the survey and interviews was analysed using qualitative analysis of content with the categories from stakeholder analysis. The findings were that librarians can make good use of the power to manage a CRIS and that it was a good use of their competence. They could see both what was of use for the organisation and the user as well as trying to further develop the administration of the system. The result also showed that there was a difference in the librarians' relation to the system dependent on their work tasks. Those administrating the system have more power and legitimacy relating to Chalmers Research, but all librarians might have reason to use the system in their work.