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Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses has become a necessary component of strategy and operations.
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over a hundred case examples from around the world, the book reveals how collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations can most effectively co-create significant economic, social, and environmental value for society, organizations, and individuals. This essential resource features the groundbreaking Collaborative Value Creation framework that can be used for analyzing the value of partnerships between businesses and nonprofits. The book provides step-by-step guidance to business managers and nonprofit practitioners for achieving successful cross-sector partnerships. It identifies the needed Collaborative Mindsets, analyzes the drivers of partnership development along the Collaboration Continuum, sets forth the key partnering pathways in the Collaboration Process Value Chain, delineates multidimensional Collaboration Outcomes, and offers Twelve Smart Practices of Collaboration Value Creation.
List of contents
Figures and Table vi
Foreword xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
1 Collaboration: It's All about Creating Value 1
2 The Collaborative Value Creation Spectrum: A Deeper Understanding of Value 9
3 The Collaborative Value Mindset 41
4 Collaboration Stages and Value Relationships 65
5 Collaborative Value Creation Processes 127
6 Assessing the Value of Collaboration Outcomes 179
7 Twelve Smart Practices for Maximizing Collaborative Value Creation 199
Notes 219
References 241
About the Authors 277
Index 279
About the author
James E. Austin is the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. He is one of the pioneering researchers and authors in the field of nonprofit-business alliances and the author of the award-winning
The Collaboration Challenge. Austin has provided advisory services to private companies, governments, international development agencies, educational institutions, and nongovernmental organizations, and has served as a special advisor to the White House.
M. May Seitanidi (FRSA), PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Kent Business School, University of Kent and Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) of the University of Nottingham. Her work for over 20 years as a consultant, trainer, and researcher focuses on the interactions between business and nonprofit organizations. She is the editor of the
Annual Review of Social Partnerships (ARSP) and author of The Politics of Partnerships and co-editor (with Andrew Crane) of Social Partnerships and Responsible Business: A Research Handbook.
Summary
Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is a necessary component of strategy and operations. Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value.
