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Author Gray, Barbara, 1946- author.

Title Collaborating for our future : multistakeholder partnerships for solving complex problems / Barbara Gray, Jill Purdy
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Contents The rise of partnerships : from local to global -- Multistakeholder partnerships in context -- An institutional lens on multistakeholder partnerships -- Three diverse examples of multistakeholder partnerships -- Designing multistakeholder partnerships -- Conflict in multistakeholder partnerships -- Power and collaboration -- Partnerships for sustainability -- Collaborative governance -- Cross-level dynamics -- How partnerships can transform institutional fields
Summary This book explains why multistakeholder partnerships are needed to solve societal problems in the 21st century. It identifies global problems and contexts where multistakeholder partnerships are currently in use and offers numerous case examples of such partnerships to help readers grasp their nature and operation
Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed management, education, sustainability, and innovation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of MSPs, why they are needed, the challenges partners face in working together and how to design them effectively. Through the process of collaboration partners combine their differing strengths, vantage points and expertise to craft innovative responses to pressing societal concerns. The book offers valuable advice for leaders about how to design and scale up effective partnerships and how to address potential obstacles that partners may face. Drawing on three comprehensive cases and countless shorter examples from around the world, the book offers both practical advice for organization embarking on an MSP as well as a theoretical understanding of how partnerships function. Using an institutional theory lens, it explains how partnerships can effect change in institutional fields by reducing turbulence and negotiating a common set of norms and routines to govern partners' future interactions within the field of concern
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-235) and index
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Subject Partnership.
Interprofessional relations.
Civilization, Modern.
Interprofessional Relations
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
Civilization, Modern
Interprofessional relations
Partnership
Samenwerking.
Aandeelhouders.
Form Electronic book
Author Purdy, Jill M., 1967- author.
ISBN 9780191085659
0191085650