Stakeholders in curriculum development – case of Supply Chain and Logistics programme

Higher education institutions involve various groups of stakeholders that can affect strategic and operational actions in various ways and extents. Understanding the relevance of particular stakeholders in regard to an organization is therefore of key importance. Previous research has shown the importance of involvement of different groups of stakeholders in the curriculum development. The main purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework for inclusion of various stakeholders in curriculum development cycle for graduate business programmes. This is done by applying the stakeholder map to curriculum development cycle to form the conceptual framework. The framework is then applied to a case of a Supply Chain and Logistics graduate programme curriculum development.