Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement
研究了公共部门如何通过参与式治理间接影响私人利益相关者的参与，提出了“无声引导”概念，并通过芬兰矿业治理案例揭示了角色赋予、示范和期望设定等机制。
Our understanding of how public actors directly influence stakeholder engagement through mechanisms such as regulation and licensing has been steadily improving. However, the indirect influence of public governance measures on stakeholder engagement remains less explored. This article seeks to bridge this gap by examining how public sector actors use participatory governance to influence private stakeholder engagement beyond public governance processes. We introduce the concept of silent steering to describe how indirect effects on stakeholder engagement occur. Through an in-depth case study of Finnish mining governance from 1995 to 2020, we uncover how silent steering of private engagement occurs through role-giving, example-giving, and expectation-giving. Through these processes, public actors can exert significant influence over industry- and firm-level private stakeholder engagement processes even when they are not present.