Key Influencing Factors for Cross-organizational R&D Project Stakeholder Management

Nowadays, the focus of project management is no longer limited to the three traditional elements - time, quality, and cost, whereas project stakeholder management has received more and more attention. Based on an extensive review of the domestic and international literature on the project stakeholder management, this study identifies 16 factors that affect the effective management of cross-organizational research and development (R&D) project stakeholders. Factors were derived from interviews of Cross-organizational R&D project managers from different industries, and a questionnaire was designed based on the interview results. Finally, a management framework for inter-organizational R&D project stakeholders was established based on the result of the principal component analysis. This study integrates the findings with relevant theoretical knowledge of stakeholder management and provides some suggestions for cross-organization management of R&D project stakeholders.