title: Stakeholder approach for evaluating organizational change projects.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper aims to create a model for evaluating organizational change initiatives from a stakeholder resistance viewpoint.
  
  
  METHODS
  The paper presents a model to evaluate change projects and their expected benefits. Factors affecting the challenge to implement change were defined based on stakeholder theory literature. The authors test the model's practical validity for screening change initiatives to improve operating room productivity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Change initiatives can be evaluated using six factors: the effect of the planned intervention on stakeholders' actions and position; stakeholders' capability to influence the project's implementation; motivation to participate; capability to change; change complexity; and management capability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The presented model's generalizability should be explored by filtering presented factors through a larger number of historical cases operating in different healthcare contexts. The link between stakeholders, the change challenge and the outcomes of change projects needs to be empirically tested.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The proposed model can be used to prioritize change projects, manage stakeholder resistance and establish a better organizational and professional competence for managing healthcare organization change projects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  New insights into existing stakeholder-related understanding of change project successes are provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. antti.peltokorpi@tkk.fi
authors.forename: Antti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peltokorpi
authors.forename: Antti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alho
authors.forename: Jaakko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kujala
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aitamurto
authors.forename: Petri
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parvinen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*