scholarly journals Partner Strategic Capabilities for Capturing Value from Sustainability-Focused Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriane MacDonald ◽  
Amelia Clarke ◽  
Lei Huang ◽  
M. Seitanidi
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Partner Involvement ◽  
The Relationship

As social and ecological problems escalate, the role of collective capacity and knowledge is becoming more critical in reaching solutions. This capacity and knowledge are dispersed among diverse stakeholder organizations. Thus, organizations in the private, public and civil society sectors are experiencing pressure to address these complex challenges through collaborative action in the form of multi-stakeholder partnerships. One major challenge to securing and maintaining partner engagement in these voluntary collaborative initiatives is defining the value proposition for prospective and existing partner organizations. Understanding the relationship between different forms of partner involvement and the subsequent resources that partners stand to gain is necessary to articulate the value proposition of the partnership to partners. This study conducts a survey of partner organizations from 15 different sustainability-focused multi-stakeholder partnerships in Canada. We compare three partner strategies for implementation and value capture and discover that each strategy is associated with different partner-level resource outcomes. Our findings indicate that product stewardship strategies are associated with financial and organizational capital, marketing and promotion with human capital, and internal implementation structures with shared capital. This study has implications for multi-stakeholder partnership researchers and practitioners because it suggests the possibility that certain partner-level outcomes could rely on the partner, as well as partnership implementation strategies.

scholarly journals The Mechanism of the Effects of Experiential Marketing on Urban Consumers’ Well-Being

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hongshen Liu ◽  
Yuying Fu ◽  
Hao He
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Service Marketing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Experiential Marketing ◽  
Experiential Value ◽  
The Relationship

Knowing how to improve urban consumers’ well-being is of great importance for sustainable urban development and has become a research hotspot in the field of service marketing, which is evolving from functionality-focused view into experience-focused view. This study explored the mechanism and boundary conditions of experiential marketing on urban consumers’ well-being with a survey data collected from 256 consumers in the catering service industry in China. The results showed that experiential marketing had a significant positive impact on consumer well-being, experiential value played a partial mediation role between experiential marketing and consumer well-being, value proposition engagement moderated the relationship between experiential value and consumer well-being, and value proposition engagement moderated the mediation role of experiential value between experiential marketing and consumer well-being. This study complements the literature of transformative service by revealing a complex mechanism relating to the effects of experiential marketing on urban consumers’ well-being and provides theoretical guidance for service enterprises to improve their offerings.

Outcomes to Partners in Multi-Stakeholder Cross-Sector Partnerships: A Resource-Based View

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Clarke ◽  
Adriane MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Community Sustainability ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Multiple Actors ◽  
Strategic Goal

The prevalence and complexity of local sustainable development challenges require coordinated action from multiple actors in the business, public, and civil society sectors. Large multi-stakeholder partnerships that build capacity by developing and leveraging the diverse perspectives and resources of partner organizations are becoming an increasingly popular approach to addressing such challenges. Multi-stakeholder partnerships are designed to address and prioritize a social problem, so it can be challenging to define the value proposition to each specific partner. Using a resource-based view, this study examines partner outcomes from the perspective of the strategic interest of the partner as distinct from the strategic goal of the partnership. Based on 47 interviews with representatives of partner organizations in four Canadian case studies of community sustainability plan implementation, this article details 10 resources partners can gain from engaging in a multi-stakeholder partnership.

The Role of ICT-Enabled Social Enterprise for Promoting Social Investment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiorenza Lipparini ◽  
Joshua Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Europe is facing unprecedented challenges, from globalisation to migratory flows, changing family structures, ageing populations, inequality and social exclusion, unemployment, and so on. To meet these challenges, we need to modernise EU social protection systems by expanding the social investment dimension of social spending, while taking advantage of technological advancements and multi-stakeholder partnerships to drive change in the welfare system. Within this context, this chapter focuses on the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled social enterprises for promoting social investment. First, we outline the social enterprise landscape in Europe, going beyond fuzzy concepts to highlight the key characteristics of social enterprises that make them important for social change. Second, we outline key ways in which social enterprises are using ICT in their activities to achieve varied socio-economic goals: from using social media to scale up, to improving organisational management, and expanding service offerings in healthcare, education, the labour market, and other social fields. Our analysis is based on findings from our study on the role of social enterprises in delivering ICT enabled social innovation initiatives promoting social investment approaches, carried out by the authors in the framework of the European Commission’s ICT-Enabled Social Innovation (IESI) project. (See https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/iesi.) We find that ICT-enabled social enterprises are particularly important for social investment, given their ability to combine technological and social innovation, and their focus on meeting community-specific needs that can be scaled up. We encourage research and policy commitments to further test and validate how social enterprises can catalyse public-private partnerships for the delivery of public goods to safeguard our Social Europe.

scholarly journals Equity-oriented Design in Open Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah (Remi) Kalir
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
Worked Example ◽  
Open Content ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Power And Agency ◽  
The Relationship

Structured AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this article is threefold: a) to describe the equity-oriented design of a publicly accessible and openly networked computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) initiative that has supported educator discussion about equity topics; b) to identify design principles for equity-oriented design in open education; and c) to propose a model for the design of open learning initiatives that are mutually committed to educational equity and educational openness.Design: This article draws from design-based research methodology, specifically design narrative and the worked example. The article is one response to the need for more “designerly work” in the learning sciences, generally, and more specifically in domains such as CSCL.Findings: Four design principles are identified that informed the equity-oriented creation and iteration of the Marginal Syllabus, an open CSCL initiative: Leveraging the open web, fostering multi-stakeholder partnerships, working with open content, and engaging professional learning as an open practice. This article also advances the open palimpsests model for equity-oriented design in open education. The model integrates design principles to assist CSCL and open education designers and researchers in creating or iterating projects to be more equity-oriented learning opportunities.Originality: This article’s design narrative identifies Marginal Syllabus design principles and advances the open palimpsests model for equity-oriented design in open education. The design narrative demonstrates how critical perspectives on the relationship between equity and digital technology can encourage collaboration among diverse project stakeholders, attune to the dynamics of power and agency, and respond to the worldly needs of partners and participants.

The Role of Leadership and Management in Six Southern Public Health Partnerships: A Study of Member Involvement and Satisfaction

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa S. Weiss ◽  
Shahnaz K. Taber ◽  
Erica S. Breslau ◽  
Sarah E. Lillie ◽  
Yuelin Li
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Health Partnerships ◽  
Partner Involvement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Member Involvement

Research has led to greater understanding of what is needed to create and sustain well-functioning public health partnerships. However, a partnership’s ability to foster an environment that encourages broad member involvement in discussions, decision making, and activities has received scant empirical attention. This study examined the relationship between partnership members’ perceptions of how well leadership and management facilitated their involvement, and their satisfaction with their role and influence within the partnership. Data came from 60 individuals who participated in two waves of a quantitative process evaluation of six southern interorganizational partnerships, formed as part of a national pilot project to increase cervical and breast cancer screening rates. Results suggested that environments fostering broad partner involvement were associated with measures of member satisfaction, controlling for other partnership characteristics. Findings indicated that facilitation of member involvement deserves increased consideration from researchers and practitioners as an indicator of the quality of partnership functioning.

Organizational learning, organizational resilience and the mediating role of multi-stakeholder networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mousa ◽  
Hala A. Abdelgaffar ◽  
Walid Chaouali ◽  
Mohammed Aboramadan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stakeholder Networks ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Stakeholder Network ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to focus on academics in three private foreign universities located in Cairo (Egypt) to explore the influence of organizational learning (OL) on the level of organizational resilience of academics with and without the mediating effect of a multi-stakeholder network. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a comprehensive count sampling in which every academic was handed a questionnaire form to fill. This led to a decrease in the likelihood of research bias. In total, the authors distributed 960 questionnaire forms and collected 576 completed questionnaires, which is almost more than 60% of the total population. The authors used structural equation to determine the effect of OL on academics’ level of organizational resilience. The same equation was later used to assess the mediating role of the multi-stakeholder network on the aforementioned relationship. Findings The findings highlight a statistically significant influence of OL on academics’ level of organizational resilience. Moreover, the results revealed the significant role of the multi-stakeholder network in mediating the relationship between OL and organizational resilience. Originality/value This paper contributes by filling a gap in human resource management and organization literature in the higher education sector, in which empirical studies on the relationship between OL, multi-stakeholder networks and organizational resilience have been limited until now.

scholarly journals Eco-Feminism in Contemporary Female Iranian Poetry

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Narges Bagheri
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Women's Relationships ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
The Relationship

Today, nature, land and environment are of the important issues that everyone in his/her own position could have an important role in protecting them. Eco-feminism is a branch of feminism that communicates between ecology and feminism. Generally speaking, it can be said that Eco-feminists stesses on the three similar issues: women's relationships with nature, the relationship between domination over women and domination over nature, the role of women in solving ecological problems. One of their main arguments is that women mainly damage more from environmental pollution in comparison to men, as a result, the environment issue is mainly a gender-related issue. There is a consensus on the moral issues of environment protection, which is based on the wemen’s work and social posion, among eco-femenists. But their strategies for a change are different. One of these strategies is cultural strategy and can be related to literature and poetry. This paper explores the contemporary women's poetry from this point of view. Many of contemporary Iranian poetry samples show that they are closely linked with the nature. Respecting to the nature and environmental concerns and the preservation of nature has been reflected in their poetry and this voice can help changing the thought of society.

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