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By placing host nation support at the center of the study's stakeholder

analysis, fifteen stakeholders are identified based on NATO's principles for

host nation support. The stakeholders are categorized into four categories, and

their mutual interest and resource relationships are analyzed. The study

concludes that the main actor for Swedish host nation support, the Swedish

Armed Forces, needs to carefully manage core stakeholders, collaborate with

primary stakeholders, keep secondary stakeholders integrated, and keep other

stakeholders informed. The study's conclusions are that Swedish host nation

support benefits from external requirements, that host nation support is the

price Sweden has to pay for NATO membership, and that procurement and

infrastructure investments need to be exempted from current legislation. The

study claims that stakeholder theory analysis is useful in contexts other than

the business world and that the process model used is transferable to other

stakeholder analyses in other contexts.