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Whether you’re working on a local collective impact initiative or a national public-private partnership; whether you’re a practitioner or a researcher; whether you’re looking for basics or a detailed look at a particular topic, our Resource Library can help you find the information and tools you need for your cross-sector thinking and practice. The Library — which includes resources from research organizations, advisory groups, training organizations, academic centers and journals, and other sources — spans issue areas, sectors, and partnership types.

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  • Academic Courses and Programs on Cross-sector Collaboration

    • The Intersector Project
    • 2017

    There are a number of academic courses, programs, and certificates offered in the United States in which cross-sector collaboration is a major theme. We hope this list will be useful for educators who are interested in how this topic is being taught at universities across the country…

  • What Barriers? Insights from Solving Problems through Cross-Sector Partnership

    • Living Cities
    • Allison Gold
    • 2013

    In this paper, Living Cities offers “a strategic framework for cross-sector partnerships including describing and defining the traits that make up a strong foundation, factors that influence success, and behaviors of high-impact efforts. In addition to the theory, the paper steeps these ideas in four…

  • Collective Impact

    • Stanford Social Innovation Review
    • John Kania and Mark Kramer
    • 2011

    This landmark SSIR article introduced the concept of collective impact and its five conditions of collective success. “Collaboration is nothing new. The social sector is filled with examples of partnerships, networks, and other types of joint efforts. But collective impact initiatives are distinctly different. Unlike…

  • Designing and Implementing Cross-Sector Collaborations: Needed and Challenging

    • Public Administration Review
    • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Melissa Middleton Stone
    • 2015

    ✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross-sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’…

  • Designing and Managing Cross-Sector Collaboration: a Case Study in Reducing Traffic Congestion

    • The IBM Center for the Business of Government
    • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa M. Stone, and Emily O. Saunoi-Sandgren
    • 2009

    “This report focuses specifically on a cross-sector collaborative effort to significantly reduce traffic congestion in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota. The organizers of the program concluded that a collaborative, multi-modal approach was crucial to making real headway on a longstanding, costly, nearly intractable…

  • Review of Industrial Organization
  • Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, and R. Richard Geddes
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Efficiency gains in public-private partnerships (PPP) derive from risk transfer and the bundling of different tasks. We study the factors that explain bundling in single contracts. We focus on the choice between integrating operational tasks alone or construction…

  • Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • John Qi Dong et al.
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Firms increasingly look to collaboration with alliance partners in their quest for breakthrough innovation. But how does the position of a firm in its alliance network weighted by the centrality of its partners — a concept which we…

  • Case Studies in the Environment (University of California Press)
  • Karie Boone, ch'aska Huayhuaca and Stacia S. Ryder
  • 2017

“The Colorado River travels through seven states and two countries, nine national parks, and provides water for 40 million people across the arid west. It is also the most endangered river in America. This article outlines a case study of the Upper Colorado River Endangered…

  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Carrie L. Chapman and Danielle M. Varda
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Given the complexity of today’s social and political dilemmas, a common method of program and policy implementation is surfacing in the form of interorganizational, cross-sector goal-directed networks. This article applies the ‘Core Dimensions of Connectivity’ framework to analyze…

  • Journal of Management Studies
  • M. Rivera-Santos, C. Rufín, and U. Wassmer
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “We analyse business-NGO (B2N) alliances through the lenses of multiple agency and behavioural agency theories to identify the sources of agency problems and the most effective choice of mitigation mechanisms. We contend that three types of agency relationships…

  • Public Management Review
  • Daniela Cristofoli, Marco Meneguzz, and Norma Riccucci
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Despite a general consensus on the importance of collaborative settings for the solution of ‘wicked’ problems, questions of how to successfully manage public networks remain without a clear answer. Some authors highlighted the importance of the network structure…

  • Public Management Review
  • Yu-Che Chen and Jooho Lee
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This study aims to advance the theory and practice of managing collaborative data networks for information and decision-support services that exist in over 400 U.S. metropolitan areas. Integrating insights from collaborative governance, network management, and cross-boundary information sharing,…

  • Public Management Review
  • Josip Markovic
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “How to make public networks really work? Scholars have recently answered this question by emphasizing the importance of network management, trust and structure. Yet, studies that investigate the interactive effects of varying determinants on network performance are rare….

  • Public Works Management & Policy
  • Stefan Verweij, Geert R. Teisman, and Lasse M. Gerrits
  • 2017

“Most research on Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development focuses on phases prior to construction. The implementation phase itself has received less attention. However, sound public–private agreements and project preparations can fail during project implementation because of, for example, unforeseen events and ineffective responses to…

  • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
  • Christian Uhr
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “In an emergency or disaster situation, it is likely that a conglomerate of societal resources will respond to various needs. In such a multi-organizational setting, collaboration becomes necessary. Empirical findings suggest that collaboration can be very problematical and this paper…