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8: Stakeholder Interactions: Storying an... > Creating and Resolving Alliances, Ri...
Creating and Resolving Alliances, Rivalries, and Schisms
Sensemaking, whether in storymaking or framing, can result in activating or disintegrating connections among stakeholders and stakes. Sensemaking can lead to creation or dissolution of alliances, rivalries, and schisms among stakeholders.
Some stakeholders will see opportunity for alignment of mutual goals with other stakeholder groups. Some may wish to disassociate from former allies and become more independent in the network. The more significant the change episode … the more strident the ripple effects throughout the network of stakeholder relationships are likely to be. As the web of relationships change, the position that implementers find themselves in changes too. (Lewis, 2007, p. 193)