Identification · The influence map · Element
The legitimacy
The basis of the stakeholder’s claim on the organisation.
The part
What it is
Legitimacy comes from contract, from law, from being affected by decisions, or from a moral claim. All four are real and they differ in how they are usually treated.
Assessing legitimacy separately from power is what prevents the list collapsing into a ranking of who can cause trouble.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.