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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
  • Nigel D. Caldwell, Jens K. Roehrich, and Gerard George
  • 2017

“Public-private collaborations, or hybrid organizational forms, are often difficult to organize because of disparate goals, incentives, and management practices. Some of this misalignment is addressed structurally or contractually, but not the management processes and practices. In this study, we examine how the coordination of these…

  • Science and Public Policy
  • Sarah Giest
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Cluster policy is widely discussed due to the vagueness of the cluster concept and the disagreement among innovation stakeholders and policymakers on how to address networking dynamics. This paper looks at the increasing number of cluster policies targeting…

  • Public Management Review
  • Lena Brogaard
  • 2017

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly seen as a way of innovating the production and management of public services. However, the question of what drives innovation in partnerships has so far received only limited attention. Drawing on network governance…

  • Public Works Management & Policy
  • Eric J. Boyer and Daniel S. Scheller
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “This study examines the influence of economic, political, and demand factors on the adoption of public–private partnerships (PPPs) from 2000 to 2016. State debt, urban travel demand, and state laws allowing unsolicited PPP proposals have a significant effect on…

  • International Review of Public Administration
  • Sungsoo Hwang
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper addresses the collaboration and partnership between public and nonprofit organizations under the new governance paradigm in public administration, particularly in building neighborhood information systems (NISs). An NIS is a hybrid application of geographical information system and web…

  • Science and Public Policy
  • Gabriela Dutrénit and José Miguel Natera
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “In recent decades, public engagement experience in science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy have gained a significant interest. As for the STI policies, the stakeholders are a heterogeneous group of private-sector scholars and citizens taking part in this area…

  • Journal of Corporate Citizenship
  • Jem Bendell
  • 2017

“This article provides a personal reflection on 20 years of practice and research on cross-sector partnering for sustainable development. It coincides with the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first book on the subject, In the Company of Partners (Murphy and Bendell, 1997). The…

  • World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development
  • Giuseppe Tardivo, Gabriele Santoro, and Alberto Ferraris
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Openness in innovation has become a common practice to achieve effective and radical changes. Recently, its key features have been juxtaposed to social sector. In this context, the aim of this paper is to understand how openness can be…

  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Chris Ansell and Alison Gash
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaborative governance is increasingly viewed as a proactive policy instrument, one in which the strategy of collaboration can be deployed on a larger scale and extended from one local context to another. This article suggests that the concept of…

  • Urban Research & Practice
  • Mark L. Joseph et al.
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “One of the largely undocumented dimensions of public housing transformation in the United States is the multi-sector, multi-organizational collaborations whose charge is to manage the local implementation of mixed-income developments. In Chicago, private real estate developers entered into partnerships…