Study goals
To analyze how strategic management of internal stakeholders can strengthen this group's engagement with organizational strategy to expand projects' social impact.
Relevance / originality
The technical report provides a greater understanding of the challenges of achieving social impact in project management related to stakeholder engagement and offers strategies with more relational approaches to align implementation and strategies.
Methodology / approach
The qualitative research involved a narrative literature review in Web of Science, Scopus, and relevant gray literature, document analysis, and participant observation in a Brazilian social organization.
Main results
The theoretical relevance of the topic was reinforced by the literature and interventions observed in strengthening internal stakeholder engagement through co-design in knowledge production management and the metrics management system.
Theoretical / methodological contributions
Stakeholder engagement is a critical factor in the production and impact analysis of social projects. The report analyzes stakeholder management challenges and strategies to increase the potential for social transformations.
Social / management contributions
Strengthening organizational culture and reducing implementation tensions through co-design, which enables the identification, communication, and engagement of internal stakeholders in the production of knowledge and metrics, integrating organizational and sociocultural context, implementation, and strategy.