Social Partnerships and Responsible Business : A Research Handbook (Hardcover)

1. Social Partnerships and Responsible Business: What, why, and how? (Andrew Crane and M. May Seitanidi) Part I: Partnership for the Social Good? Local, national and global perspectives  2. Partnerships as Panacea for Addressing Global Problems? On rationale, context, actors, impact and limitations (Ans Kolk) 3. International Business and Social Partnerships: How institutional and MNE capabilities affect collective-goods provisioning in emerging markets (Jonathan Doh and Jean Boddewyn)  4. Cross-Sector Social Partnership in Areas of Limited Statehood (Ralph Hamman)  5. Designing social partnerships for local sustainability strategy implementation (Amelia Clarke)  Part II: Management and Governance Challenges  6. Creating Partnering Space: Exploring the right fit for sustainable development partnerships (Rob van Tulder and Stella Pfisterer)  7. Cross-Sector Governance: From institutions to partnerships, and back to institutions (Carlos Rufin and Miguel Rivera-Santos)  8.Evolution of an Alliance Portfolio to Develop an Inclusive Business (Jana Schmutzler, Roberto Gutierrez, Ezequiel Reficco and Patricia Marquez) Chapter 9: NGO-Initiated Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Partnerships: Greenpeace’s "Solutions" campaign for natural refrigerants in North America (Edwin Stafford and Cathy Hartman)  10. How Social Partnerships Build Brands (John Peloza and Christine Ye)  11. Conflict in Cross-Sectoral Partnerships (Barbara Gray and Jill Purdy) Part III: Reimagining Social Partnerships: Theory and methods  12. Theory-Method Interfaces in Cross-Sector Partnership Research (Oana Branzei and Marlene Jansen Le Ber)  13. Using Futures Methods in Cross-Sector Partnership Projects: Engaging wicked problems responsibly (John Selsky, Angela Wilkinson and Diana Mangalagiu)  14. Responsibilization and Governmentality in Brand-Led Social Partnerships (Sonia Bookman and Cheryl Martens)  15. An Institutional Perspective on Cross-Sector Partnerships (Clodia Vurri and Tina Dacin)  16. Towards a New Theory of the Firm: The collaborative enterprise (Antonio Tencati and Laszlo Zsolnai)  Part IV: Reimagining Social Partnerships: Perspectives on practice  17. Cross-Sector/Cross-Boundary Collaboration: Making a difference through practice (Sandra Waddock)  18. The Need for a New Approach to Sustainability (Hadley Archer and Paul Uys)  19. How to Co-Create Opportunities Together: CREAMOS in Guatemala (Barbara Nijhuis)  20. Cross Sector Collaborations: Challenges in aligning perspectives in partnership committees and co-developing funding proposals (Sarah Winchester)  21. The Role Partnership Brokers Play in Creating Effective Social Partnerships (Surinder Hundal)  22. Social Partnerships: A new social contract to deliver value-focused collaboration (Lucian J. Hudson)  23. Social Partnerships’ Development Challenge: Comprehensive self-development (Steve Waddell)  24. Cross-Sector Partnerships: Prototyping 21st century governance (Simon Zadek)  25. Conclusion: Re-imagining the future of social partnerships and responsible business (M. May Seitanidi and Andrew Crane)