Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed...

This paper contributes to a developing literature on the role of framing in organizational settings and in protracted environmental disputes in particular. The paper identifies four frame types (risk, conflict management, power, and views of nature frames) that can be used to understand how...

Using a discourse approach to framing, we investigate the extent to which stakeholder groups cohere or differ in their framing of three environmental disputes. The results help us to better understand the nature of homogeneous or heterogeneous stakeholder groups and how their sensemaking...