Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues: Challenges to Theory and Practice
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- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Management
- Vol. 31 (6) , 849-873
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206305279601
Abstract
Project-based cross-sector partnerships to address social issues (CSSPs) occur in four “arenas”: business-nonprofit, business-government, government-nonprofit, and trisector. Research on CSSPs is multidisciplinary, and different conceptual “platforms” are used: resource dependence, social issues, and societal sector platforms. This article consolidates recent literature on CSSPs to improve the potential for cross-disciplinary fertilization and especially to highlight developments in various disciplines for organizational researchers. A number of possible directions for future research on the theory, process, practice, method, and critique of CSSPs are highlighted. The societal sector platform is identified as a particularly promising framework for future research.Keywords
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