TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaboration Between Nonprofit and Business Sectors
T2 - A Framework to Guide Strategy Development for Nonprofit Organizations
AU - AL-Tabbaa, Omar
AU - Leach, Desmond
AU - March, John
N1 - No full text in Eprints. HN 29/11/2017
PY - 2014/6/1
Y1 - 2014/6/1
N2 - Collaboration between nonprofit and business sectors is widely regarded as a value creation process that benefits society, business, and nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This process, however, has rarely been considered from a nonprofit perspective. In this paper, we discuss a new framework to assist NPOs in developing strategic collaborations with businesses. We argue that, by being strategically proactive rather than reactive to what businesses might offer, NPOs can increase the scale of their cross-sector collaborations and thus enhance their sustainability. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
AB - Collaboration between nonprofit and business sectors is widely regarded as a value creation process that benefits society, business, and nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This process, however, has rarely been considered from a nonprofit perspective. In this paper, we discuss a new framework to assist NPOs in developing strategic collaborations with businesses. We argue that, by being strategically proactive rather than reactive to what businesses might offer, NPOs can increase the scale of their cross-sector collaborations and thus enhance their sustainability. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
KW - Cross-sector collaboration
KW - Nonprofit
KW - Organizational sustainability
KW - Strategic management
KW - Strategy development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84900795483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11266-013-9357-6
DO - 10.1007/s11266-013-9357-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84900795483
VL - 25
SP - 657
EP - 678
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
SN - 0957-8765
IS - 3
ER -