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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 394-414 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | International Journal of Management Reviews |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2022 |
Abstract
Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) addressing economic, social, and environmental issues continue to be a vibrant topic in management research and beyond. However, compared to the exogenous factors that drive collaborative advantage through structures and governance, the endogenous problems of collaborating across different institutional logics, residing at the micro-level of interactions among partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, have received scant attention. The preoccupation with success factors often leads to a bias toward the problem-solving capacities of CSPs at the neglect of the considerable barriers to successful collaboration across sectors. This study addresses this shortcoming and extracts an institutional approach of CSPs from an integrative review of the literature combining bibliometric methods with qualitative reviewing. A bibliometric map shows how the literature is divided into several clusters, each addressing a specific type of CSP but not engaging much in exchange with other clusters. Zooming in on the clusters provides a more nuanced picture of how institutional theory has hitherto been applied to CSPs. We build on these pieces of the puzzle and assemble them into a preliminary framework that accounts for inter-institutional conflicts in CSPs and actor-level responses to these conflicts. Our framework introduces a new analytical platform that facilitates multi-level research, bringing the micro-level of individual actors back in and connecting it with institutional frames at the macro-level.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Decision Sciences(all)
- Business, Management and Accounting(all)
- Strategy and Management
- Business, Management and Accounting(all)
- Management of Technology and Innovation
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In: International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 24, No. 3, 07.2022, p. 394-414.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-sector partnerships
T2 - Mapping the field and advancing an institutional approach
AU - Vogel, Rick
AU - Göbel, Markus
AU - Grewe-Salfeld, Marit
AU - Herbert, Barbara
AU - Matsuo, Yuka
AU - Weber, Christiana
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation), Key Number VO 1610/7‐1.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) addressing economic, social, and environmental issues continue to be a vibrant topic in management research and beyond. However, compared to the exogenous factors that drive collaborative advantage through structures and governance, the endogenous problems of collaborating across different institutional logics, residing at the micro-level of interactions among partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, have received scant attention. The preoccupation with success factors often leads to a bias toward the problem-solving capacities of CSPs at the neglect of the considerable barriers to successful collaboration across sectors. This study addresses this shortcoming and extracts an institutional approach of CSPs from an integrative review of the literature combining bibliometric methods with qualitative reviewing. A bibliometric map shows how the literature is divided into several clusters, each addressing a specific type of CSP but not engaging much in exchange with other clusters. Zooming in on the clusters provides a more nuanced picture of how institutional theory has hitherto been applied to CSPs. We build on these pieces of the puzzle and assemble them into a preliminary framework that accounts for inter-institutional conflicts in CSPs and actor-level responses to these conflicts. Our framework introduces a new analytical platform that facilitates multi-level research, bringing the micro-level of individual actors back in and connecting it with institutional frames at the macro-level.
AB - Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) addressing economic, social, and environmental issues continue to be a vibrant topic in management research and beyond. However, compared to the exogenous factors that drive collaborative advantage through structures and governance, the endogenous problems of collaborating across different institutional logics, residing at the micro-level of interactions among partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, have received scant attention. The preoccupation with success factors often leads to a bias toward the problem-solving capacities of CSPs at the neglect of the considerable barriers to successful collaboration across sectors. This study addresses this shortcoming and extracts an institutional approach of CSPs from an integrative review of the literature combining bibliometric methods with qualitative reviewing. A bibliometric map shows how the literature is divided into several clusters, each addressing a specific type of CSP but not engaging much in exchange with other clusters. Zooming in on the clusters provides a more nuanced picture of how institutional theory has hitherto been applied to CSPs. We build on these pieces of the puzzle and assemble them into a preliminary framework that accounts for inter-institutional conflicts in CSPs and actor-level responses to these conflicts. Our framework introduces a new analytical platform that facilitates multi-level research, bringing the micro-level of individual actors back in and connecting it with institutional frames at the macro-level.
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U2 - 10.1111/ijmr.12283
DO - 10.1111/ijmr.12283
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VL - 24
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EP - 414
JO - International Journal of Management Reviews
JF - International Journal of Management Reviews
SN - 1460-8545
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