Using social network analysis to identify stakeholders’ influence on energy efficiency of housing

Abstract

Energy-efficient housing is a product that integrates various stakeholders' tasks throughout the different stages of its life cycle. The relationships between these stakeholders impact on the degree of knowledge sharing and informed decisionmaking and can potentially enhance or lower the energy efficiency of the product -the house. This article uses a social network analysis (SNA) approach to visualize the social networks of the stakeholders of a number of owner-occupied housing case studies in Australia. The aim is to analyse, contrast and quantify the degrees of connectivity and centrality of the housing stakeholders to identify which groups have more connectivity in the stakeholders' network of energyefficiency housing and consequently more potential to influence the energy efficiency outcomes and which practices are more likely to enhance transparency and information sharing that is essential for producing energy-efficient housing.

Teoria de Redes de Influências de "Stakeholders": uma abordagem revisitada

“…Faced with this panorama, various researchers recognize the importance of an in-depth analysis of the relationships between stakeholders (ROWLEY and MOLDOVEANU, 2003;ROLOFF, 2008;GARRIGA, 2009;ZENG, CHEN, DONG et al, 2015;CABRAL, FERNANDES and RIBEIRO, 2016;ZEDAN and MILLER, 2017;YANG and BENTLEY, 2017). They suggest social network analysis to evaluate how the structure of the stakeholder network and the position of each stakeholder within that structure can influence the organization.…”

“…The contributions of the empirical articles were analyzed and it was observed that three of these studies seek to apply and expand the model from Rowley (1997). The empirical studies are those of Garriga (2009), Fassin, Colle andFreeman (2017), and Zedan and Miller (2017). The choice of empirical articles is warranted here due to the objective of this study being to reveal the stakeholder networks approach as practice, aiming to understand how it has developed empirically in the last 20 years, that is, since it was proposed.…”

“…Another study based on the concepts and on the approach of the Network Theory of Stakeholders is that of Zedan and Miller (2017), which seeks to explore the impact of the influence of stakeholders on strategic decisions in the engineering and energy efficiency sector. The article concluded that the stakeholders network has more connectivity with the strategic decisions than expected by the focal organizations, and that the transparency and sharing of information with the stakeholders regarding the companies' decisions have a positive impact on the response that the stakeholders group gives to the companies.…”

“…The stakeholders network has more connectivity with strategic decisions than expected by the focal organizations (ZEDAN and MILLER, 2017).…”

Network theory of stakeholder influences: a revisited approach

“…The contributions of the empirical articles were analyzed and it was observed that three of these studies seek to apply and expand the model from Rowley (1997). The empirical studies are those of Garriga (2009), Fassin, Colle and Freeman (2017), and Zedan and Miller (2017). The choice of empirical articles is warranted here due to the objective of this study being to reveal the stakeholder networks approach as practice, aiming to understand how it has developed empirically in the last 20 years, that is, since it was proposed.…”