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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…

  • Research in Transportation Economics
  • Patricia Galilea and Francesca Medda
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The construction and provision of infrastructure services such as transport nowadays is often based on a partnership between three main actors: public sector, private sector, and multilateral lenders, under a framework of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). This type of partnership has…

  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Mark Heuer
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper explores the theoretical underpinnings of collaboration and ecosystem management in order to identify the relationships and processes involved in implementing ecosystem management programs through cross-sector collaboration. Ecosystem management requires a highly adaptive and resilient social–ecological governance approach, which…

  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Andrew Crane
  • 2010

“The title of this article refers to two different ways of thinking about governance and cross-sector social interaction (CSSI) — let’s call them ‘small g’ and ‘big G’ governance — and how these relate to different levels of analysis of CSSIs. To put it simply:…

  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Andrew Crane
  • 2010

“At the heart of effective collaboration is value creation. It is what motivates, sustains, and produces impact from cross-sector partnering. In it lies the answer to the fundamental question posed by this Special JBE Issue: How is society better off due to the joining of…

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Accepting that there is much confusion in current debates about the use of public-private partnerships for public infrastructure projects, the article begins by considering the emergence of the ‘PPP phenomenon’ as a ‘governance scheme’ and as a ‘language…

  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Anthony M. Bertelli and Craig R. Smith
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Our argument connects the management of relational contracts with the management of policy networks. Thinking about bilateral, horizontal extensions of governmental authority in a state of agents can be enhanced, we claim, because of the rich offerings of…

  • Organization
  • Marlene J. Le Ber and Oana Branzei
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This article develops a critical theory of value creation in cross-sector partnerships by recasting value creation from the standpoint of the beneficiary. We first explain how distinct combinations of principles, relations, and relational processes set largely non-overlapping foundations…

  • Transport Reviews
  • Antonio Sánchez Soliño and Pilar Gago de Santos
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “In recent years, concern has grown over good practices in the procurement process in public-private partnerships (PPPs). The consensus view is that PPPs are prone to higher transaction costs than traditional public provision. In this paper, we contrast…

  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Ans Kolk, Willemijn van Dolen, and Marlene Vock
  • 2010

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Cross-sector social partnerships are often studied from a macro and meso perspective, also in an attempt to assess effectiveness and societal impact. This article pays specific attention to the micro perspective, i.e., individual interactions between and within organizations…

  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Marlene J. Le Ber and Oana Branzei
  • 2010

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Prior research flags the inherent incompatibilities between for-profit and non-profit partners and cautions that clashing value creation logics and conflicting identities can stall social innovation in cross- sector partnerships. Process narratives of successful versus unsuccessful cross- sector partnerships paint…