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The Influence of Community Involvement Intention to Stakeholder Perception for Threats of Hazardous Chemicals

Li Xiaowei, Liu Tiezhong, Zhang Hubo, Dong Jinyang   

  1. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2017-05-15 Online:2020-01-28 Published:2020-01-19

Abstract:

In face of hazardous chemicals, the government and related departments often fall into a dilemma where they have to ensure the public's information right but meanwhile worry about the public's reaction. Trust is an important factor leading to the above commu-nication plight. In order to facilitate effective hazard information communication, this study starts from the viewpoint of reconstructing trust relationship between the public and government, measures public trust by stakeholder perception, then explores the influence rela-tionship between community involvement intention and stakeholder perception. Specially, community participation is divided into ritual participation and substantive participation, which represents one way communication and dual-way communication respectively. Results show that:stakeholder perception of hazardous chemicals could be significantly improved by public community involvement intention, es-pecially the direct effect of ritual participate intention; the pre-decisional processes plays a completely mediating role in the model; haz-ard knowledge has a significant moderating effect in the model, especially in the path from pre-decision process to stakeholder perception. This study will provide theoretical support and practical value for construction of the trust relationship between the public and government.

Key words: community involvement, stakeholder, risk perception, hazardous chemicals, risk communication