A challenge related to the expansion of wind power concerns how wind power developers can foster a good relationship with local communities. Building on research on social acceptance for wind power, this thesis addresses two identified gaps. The main focus is a theoretical gap, where previous research is criticized for assuming perfectly flexible organizations when suggesting how social acceptance can be enhanced. Also, an empirical gap is addressed by studying India, a different socio-economic and socio-cultural context compared to western contexts, which previous research has focused on. The aim is to study how management’s stakeholder prioritization affects community acceptance through a qualitative case study of a large Indian wind power developer with data from semi-structured interviews with senior management and internal company reports. The results show that managers’ stakeholder prioritizations and organizational constraints affect community acceptance and that the factors that enhance community acceptance has to be adapted to the context.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-175919 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Saadat, Mikael, Wahlgren, Samuel |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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