Johnson, A. (2021). Using Control Factors to Translate Insight into Action. In: Harris, P., Bitonti, A., Fleisher, C.S., Skorkjær Binderkrantz, A. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_181-1

Control Factors: the three domains of power used by choice-making actors to project control over their operating environment.

A stakeholder in the form of an actor might be a corporation, a government, an interest group, or an individual.

The choices in their inventory can be made actionable when arrayed based on relative ability to express power over each choice.

These are further defined below:

1. Dominion Factors are the choices you, as an actor, your leadership or your organization controls.

2. Contingency Factors are the choices your stakeholders must cope with which, are largely uncontrollable by anyone.

3. Influence Factors are the choices another stakeholder controls, to a greater or lesser extent, which your actor’s stakeholders might influence.