Organizing for Sustainability: Why Networks and Partnerships?
Building Networks and Partnerships
ISBN: 978-1-78190-886-0, eISBN: 978-1-78190-887-7
Publication date: 18 August 2014
Abstract
Purpose
This chapter introduces the volume’s theme by considering how the forces of globalization and complexity are leading organizations to reshape and redesign themselves, how meeting the challenges of sustainable effectiveness and shared value require multiorganization networks and partnerships, and how networks and partnerships develop, function, and can produce both private benefits and public goods.
Design/methodology/approach
We apply findings from social and political evolution frameworks, partnership and collaboration research, and design for sustainability concepts to induce the likely conditions required for sustainable effectiveness from a network perspective.
Findings
Successful partnerships and collaborations in service of sustainable effectiveness will require individual organizations to change their objective function and build new and varied internal and external capabilities.
Originality/value
The chapter sets the stage for the volume’s contributions.
Keywords
Citation
Mirvis, P.H. and Worley, C.G. (2014), "Organizing for Sustainability: Why Networks and Partnerships?", Building Networks and Partnerships (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, Vol. 3), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2045-0605(2013)0000003005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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