Responsibility as opportunity: keeping sustainable develop-ment ecosystems relevant for public-private partnerships
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2019-08-15
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This research explores how public-private collaborations towards sustainable development remain relevant for its partners. It does so through three in-depth qualitative cases of public-private ecosystems (PPEs) – networks of public and private partners, organized around a central foundation, addressing a specific sustainable development issue. Interviews and documents are used to provide insights in these cases. Theories of both network structure and collaborative advantages and inertia are used to shed light on how interdependencies keep partners together. The research finds that the PPEs’ current network structures provide access to valuable resources to partners, many of whom directly or indirectly strengthen partners. Access to these resources means a blossoming in different goals (individual, organizational, collective) a partnership could address. While individual and collective goals are often articulated easily in interviews, organizational goals are harder to satisfy through the partnership – interviewees say it probably could happen, but they are not sure whether (or how much) it is happening. If only the individual and collective goals are agreed upon, and not the organizational, the long-term existence of the partnership might be threatened. The relevance of the collaboration could then be further improved by looking at resources present and how those could help address organizational goals.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen