eprintid: 11649 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 3170 dir: disk0/00/01/16/49 datestamp: 2020-11-14 05:48:48 lastmod: 2020-11-14 05:48:48 status_changed: 2020-11-14 05:48:48 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Schmidt, L creators_name: Falk, T creators_name: Siegmund-Schultze, M creators_name: Spangenberg, J H creators_gender: Female creators_gender: Female icrisatcreators_name: Falk, T affiliation: Universität Hamburg, Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology, Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution of Plants, Hamburg, Germany affiliation: Universität Hamburg, Institute of Geography, Hamburg, Germany affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru) affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Environmental Assessment and Planning Research Group, Berlin, Germany affiliation: Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany, Cologne, Germany affiliation: Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research, Dept. Community Ecology, Halle/Saale, Germany country: Germany country: India title: The Objectives of Stakeholder Involvement in Transdisciplinary Research. A Conceptual Framework for a Reflective and Reflexive Practise ispublished: pub subjects: P11 divisions: CRPS4 crps: CG1 full_text_status: public keywords: Stakeholder involvement, Participatory approaches, Research project design, Sustainable land management note: The transdisciplinary research projects INNOVATE (01LL0904A- 01LL0904E), LEGATO (01LL0917A-01LL0917O), and TFO (01LL0912A, D, E, F, G H, J, M) were funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the Sustainable Land Management programme. In the case of INNOVATE, the Brazilian counterparts entered with their own funds. The paper has been written with support of the CGIAR Research Program Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals. We would like to thank all our German and non- German partners for their contributions and discussion about the projects' transdisciplinary approaches. The authors are grateful to three anonymous reviewers whose knowledgeable and constructive commentaries helped to improve the initial version of the paper. abstract: Transdisciplinary research is a well-recognised approach to address complex real-world problems. However, the literature on a central aspect of transdisciplinarity, namely stakeholder involvement, largely lacks a reflection on its objectives. In response, we present a framework defining four general rationales for stakeholder involvement: normative, substantive, social-learning, and implementation objectives. We demonstrate the applicability of the framework and analyse how the design and processes of three collaborative research projects dealing with sustainable land management in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America were affected by motivations to include stakeholders. Our assessment indicates that at the projects' outset, many scientists pursued a normative rationale and saw stakeholder involvement as a burden. In the course of the projects, the substantive objective became more relevant as being closely linked to the core mandate of scientists. The projects also aimed for social learning and implementation processes, which, however, did not remain uncontested among team members. Overall, our study indicates that jointly negotiating, clarifying, communicating, and reflecting the underlying objectives of stakeholder involvement can help developing more effective interaction strategies and clarifying expectations. The conceptual framework can guide a systematic reflective and reflexive practise and support the planning and co-designing of future transdisciplinary research projects. date: 2020-06 date_type: published publication: Ecological Economics (TSI) volume: 176 number: 106751 publisher: Elsevier pagerange: 1-9 id_number: doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106751 refereed: TRUE issn: 0921-8009 official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106751 related_url_url: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=10.1016%2Fj.ecolecon.2020.106751&btnG= related_url_type: pub citation: Schmidt, L and Falk, T and Siegmund-Schultze, M and Spangenberg, J H (2020) The Objectives of Stakeholder Involvement in Transdisciplinary Research. A Conceptual Framework for a Reflective and Reflexive Practise. Ecological Economics (TSI), 176 (106751). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0921-8009 document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11649/1/1-s2.0-S092180091931420X-main.pdf