The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations: Propositions from the Literature
2006/11/09 by John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa Middleton Stone +1 · 2,372 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Accountability #Business #Community Development and Social Impact #Computer science #Corporate governance #Democracy #Economics #Government (linguistics) #Law #Management #Management science #Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering #Political science #Politics #Process (computing) #Process management #Public Policy and Administration Research #Public relations #Public sector #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00665.x
published in Public Administration Review 66(s1), 44-55 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2006/11/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract
People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society—business, nonprofits and philanthropies, the media, the community, and government—must collaborate to deal effectively and humanely with the challenges. This article focuses on cross‐sector collaboration that is required to remedy complex public problems. Based on an extensive review of the literature on collaboration, the article presents a propositional inventory organized around the initial conditions affecting collaboration formation, process, structural and governance components, constraints and contingencies, outcomes, and accountability issues.
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