RT Article
T1 Partnership Formation for Change: Indicators for Transformative Potential in Cross Sector Social Partnerships
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 94
IS 1
SP 139
OP 161
A1 Seitanidi, Maria May
A1 Koufopoulos, Dimitrios N.
A1 Palmer, Paul
A2 Koufopoulos, Dimitrios N.
A2 Palmer, Paul
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785638696
AB We provide a grounded model for analysing formation in cross sector social partnerships to understand why business and nonprofit organizations increasingly partner to address social issues. Our model introduces organizational characteristics, organizational motives and history of partner interactions as critical factors that indicate the potential for social change. We argue that organizational characteristics, motives and the history of interactions indicate transformative capacity, transformative intention and transformative experience, respectively. Together, these three factors consist of a framework that aids early detection of unnecessary partnering efforts and provide indicators of partners’ transformative potential. Further we discuss the reciprocal, multi-level nature of change in social partnerships through the interplay between the organizational, individual and social levels of reality. The formation stage of partnerships contributes to the partnership and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literatures a deep understanding of the organisations’ early interactions by placing within a historical context that reveals their dynamics and their potential to deliver organisational and social change.
K1 Change
K1 organisational characteristics
K1 cross sector social interactions
K1 Longitudinal
K1 Motives
K1 Formation
K1 NGO
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
K1 Partnerships
DO 10.1007/s10551-011-0784-2