Austin / Seitanidi Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations

New Thinking and Practice
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-82442-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is a necessarycomponent of strategy and operations.
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: NewThinking & Practice provides breakthrough thinking abouthow to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over ahundred case examples from around the globe and hundreds ofliterature references, the book reveals how collaboration betweenbusinesses and nonprofit organizations can most effectivelyco-create significant economic, social, and environmental value forsociety, organizations, and individuals. This essential resourcefeatures the ground-breaking Collaborative Value Creation frameworkthat can be used for analyzing the sources, forms, and processes ofvalue creation in partnerships between businesses and nonprofits.The book is a step-by-step guide for business managers andnon-profit practitioners for achieving successful cross-sectorpartnerships. It examines the key dimensions of the CollaborativeMindset that shape each partner's collaborative efforts. Itanalyzes the drivers of partnership evolution along theCollaboration Continuum, and sets forth the key pathways in theCollaboration Process Value Chain. The book concludes by offeringTwelve Smart Practices of Collaborative Value Creation for thedesign and management of cross sector partnerships. The book willempower organizations to strategically increase the potential forvalue creation both for the partners and society.
Praise for Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations:New Thinking & Practice!
"This is a playbook for enabling business and nonprofits toco-create shared value. These new types of collaborations aboutcreating value, rather than the tense standoffs of the past, arepart of the way we will create actual solutions to society'schallenges."
Michael J. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor,Harvard Business School
"Co-creating value is a powerful concept Jim Austin and MaySeitanidi are sharing with us that will bring business andnon-profit leaders to a new level of understanding and performance.This new book is the indispensable guidebook for leaders of thefuture."
Frances Hesselbein, Founding President and CEO of the FrancesHesselbein Leadership Institute, Former CEO of the Girl Scouts ofAmerica, and Holder of Presidential Medal of Freedom
"I love the book! While it focuses on "cross sector"collaboration, it should be read by every executive in the"for-profit" sector. Business is about how to collaborate withstakeholders to create value. This book tells you how to do it.Bravo!"
R. Edward Freeman, University Professor and Olsson Professor TheDarden School University of Virginia
"Finally a book that demystifies what is probably the singlemost indispensable strategy for advancing social change: crosssector collaboration that creates genuine, measurable value forall. The book is an original and valuable resource for both thenonprofit and business sectors, providing a promising new roadmapthat shows how to go beyond fighting for one's share of the pie, tocollaboration that actually makes the pie grow."
Billy Shore, Founder and CEO of Share Our Strength and Chairmanof Community Wealth Ventures
"Professors Austin and Seitanidi provide essential guidancefor managers determining how to produce benefits for theirorganizations and high impact for society. This is an informed,thoughtful, and practical analysis."
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of BusinessAdministration, Harvard Business School and author of SuperCorp:How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth andSocial Good

Autoren/Hrsg.

Austin, James E.

Seitanidi, M. May

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 DeeperUnderstanding 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 ValueCreation 199
Notes 219
References 241
About the Authors 277
Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

James E. Austin is the Eliot I. Snider and FamilyProfessor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the HarvardBusiness School. He is one of the pioneering researchers andauthors in the field of nonprofit-business alliances and the authorof the award-winning The Collaboration Challenge. Austin hasprovided advisory services to private companies, governments,international development agencies, educational institutions, andnongovernmental organizations, and has served as a special advisorto the White House.
M. May Seitanidi (FRSA), PhD, is Senior Lecturer inStrategy at Kent Business School, University of Kent and VisitingFellow at the International Centre for Corporate SocialResponsibility (ICCSR) of the University of Nottingham. Her workfor over 20 years as a consultant, trainer, and researcher focuseson the interactions between business and nonprofit organizations.She is the editor of the Annual Review of SocialPartnerships (ARSP) and author of The Politics ofPartnerships and co-editor (with Andrew Crane) of SocialPartnerships and Responsible Business: A Research Handbook.