Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues: Challenges to Theory and Practice
John W. Selsky, Barbara Parker
Journal of Management · 2005 · Volume 31 · Issue 6
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
partnership, cross sector, societal sectors, social issues, public-private alliances
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