Research Briefing

Research Briefing

Our monthly Research Briefings capture the newest research related to cross-sector collaboration for scholars whose own thinking can benefit from staying current on progress in the field and practitioners who are interested in how this research may be helpful to their cross-sector work.

The November briefing includes articles about new forms of governance in sustainable urbanization, defining and evaluating collaborative outcomes, the influence of PPP enabling legislation on projects across the United States, and more.
The October briefing includes articles about the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond, the challenges facing leaders of a cross-sector collaboration for community health, the potential to extract public value from social media data through data collaboratives, and more.
The September briefing includes articles about leadership activities catalyzing cross-sector partnerships in sustainability, assessing public value creation in mandated versus voluntary cross-sector collaborations, stakeholder motivations in collaborative federal forest governance in Oregon, and more.
The August briefing includes articles about multi-stakeholder collaboration to address health and housing needs in Boston, collaboration networks for breakthrough innovation, the landscape of regional councils addressing pre-school through graduate school education, and more.
The July briefing includes articles about partnerships for environmental change, the effects of participant diversity and trust on collaborative governance, non-profit participation in collective impact, the challenge of multiple institutional logics in hybrid organizations, and more.
The June briefing includes articles about data exchange between private corporations and government statistical offices, NYPD Shield, challenges of university-led cross-sector partnerships, cross-sector workforce initiatives, and more.
The May briefing includes articles about rural cross-sector collaboration, community-academic partnerships, a public-private partnership to address vaccine hesitancy, the discussion of public-private partnership in public administration literature, and more.
The April briefing includes articles about public-private partnerships for sustainability-related outcomes, whether public-private collaboration leads to more successful clinical trials in drug development, competing institutional logics in cross-sector partnerships, and more.
The March briefing includes articles about collaborative plans to address homelessness, industry-university-government relationships for community management, the Advocacy Coalition Framework, business-NGO partnerships in Nigeria, and more.
The February briefing includes articles about innovation in public-private partnerships, proactive approaches to university–industry cooperation, P3s in early childhood development, university-business cooperation in Finland, co-creation in the public sector, and more.