Multi-Stakeholders Governance in Social Science Discipline: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Multi-stakeholders governance (MSG) is a new governance design that involves many experts from multiple stakeholders to participate in dialogue, decision-finding (and possibly decision-making), and solutions to a common problem that occurs. This article aims to analyze and identify topics on multistakeholder governance with a focus on social science disciplines. In particular, this article takes qualitative research with a literature study approach, some data findings were analyzed using NVIVO 12 plus software. Therefore, the study results that various approaches, strategies, and scope have been used by past studies in classifying their finding. Furthermore, there are eleven main topics in MSG in social science disciplines; some of the propositions on these topics are summarized. The first cluster is actors, process, and organization; the second cluster is political, development, and policy; the third cluster are interests, management, and system; and fourth cluster are resources and networks. In sum, some of the clusters are generating illustrate certain propositions on these topics. Thus, this study provides significant findings as a mapping of novelty in future MSG studies.