Emergent Stakeholder Competence

This paper works with dynamic project stakeholder management. More specifically it works with the competence development related to stakeholder management. Based on an in-depth study of a highly complex technology project, it contributes with a fine-grained analysis of why and how the competences to handle stakeholders evolve in the project team. It shows how the team developed the ability for dynamic interaction with each stakeholder over time and describes how the team was able to differentiate action patterns across relations over time. Additionally, the paper illuminates how the project and its stakeholders co-create one another, and how the development of relational competences enables the project to orchestrate actors and relations in a manner that makes the project more powerful than it was designed to be.