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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…

  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Naeem Ashraf, Alireza Ahmadsimab, and Jonatan Pinkse
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Drawing on and extending institutional logics and resource dependence theories, this paper posits that for cross-sector partnerships to survive, organizations need to share compatible institutional logics, but depend less on each other’s resources. Asymmetrical cross-sector partnerships may lead to a…

  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Bertrand V. Quélin, Ilze Kivleniece, and Sergio Lazzarini
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Focusing on the collaboration intersecting public, non-profit, and private spheres of economic activity, we analyse the conceptual forms of hybridity embedded in these novel inter-organizational arrangements, and link them to different mechanisms of creating social value. We first…

  • Public Management Review
  • Huanming Wang, Wei Xiong, Guangdong Wu, and Dajian Zhu
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular tools to deliver infrastructure and public services around the world. As an innovative public procurement approach, PPPs have drawn considerable attention from academic circles. In order to enhance our knowledge of PPPs,…

  • The American Review of Public Administration
  • Joseph A. Hafer
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaboration is commonplace in contemporary public administration. In many instances, policy mandates collaboration between previously unconnected organizations for those organizations to obtain essential funding for public services, thus creating new administrative structures grounded in collaboration. There exists substantial…

  • SAGE Open
  • Michael J. Fratantuono and David M. Sarcone
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This article explores the strategic challenges associated with launching and managing a cross-sector collaboration that confronted Aligning Forces for Quality of South Central Pennsylvania (AF4Q-SCPA), which was established to improve health care quality in partnerships with patients, providers,…

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Anne Stafford and Pamela Stapleton
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The paper examines corporate governance mechanisms which aim to ensure financial accountability in the context of long‐term Public–Private Partnership (PPP) contracts in Britain, and assesses the degree to which they provide taxpayers with control and accountability. The corporate…

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Sophie Sturup
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This exploratory research paper seeks to consider the problems that may arise in the process of creating deep and lasting partnerships in public‐private partnerships (PPPs). It does this by contrasting two case studies of very different PPPs, Copenhagen’s…

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Graeme Hodge et al.
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Much attention has gone towards ‘up‐front’ processes when delivering infrastructure public–private partnerships (PPPs), but less on how to best govern after the ribbon is cut and the infrastructure built. This paper identifies the primary contractual and institutional governance…

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Kim Curtain and Jim Betts
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Since the 1980s, state governments across Australia have procured critical and complex infrastructure projects via a Public Private Partnership (‘PPP’). Despite the long history and widespread use of PPPs in many sectors, there are still many misconceptions and…

  • Australian Journal of Public Administration
  • Graeme Hodge, Carsten Greve, and Anthony Boardman
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Infrastructure PPPs are now main‐stream. Both partnership language and its contractual forms have evolved over the past few decades, though. Compared to early optimistic promises, we now have a more nuanced and balanced view of what PPPs are…