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The authors apply a stakeholder management lens to the recurring question: why do some firms have higher financial performance than others?
Tag: Collaborating beyond your organization
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Community engagement can offer firms and communities vital benefits. This research identifies what we know about how to achieve them.
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Truly effective community engagement involves complex decisions about who to work with (or through), how to engage, and what likely result to achieve.
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This study investigates the processes underlying how business and nonprofit partnerships form. The authors identify the challenges faced by managers at each stage of partnership implementation. Based on their findings, they propose a partnership test that managers can use to evaluate the implementation effectiveness of a partnership.
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This paper highlights how managers form effective partnerships between business, government and non-profits to address social issues. Successful partnerships create a shared vision by focusing on common interests.
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While most organizations approach community engagement in a 'transactional' way, the greatest value and competitive advantage is derived from more relational forms of engagement, which is harder to imitate.
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Good routines help companies ensure stakeholder cooperation. This cooperation is essential for developing capabilities to improve environmental performance.
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A study by Erin M. Reid and Michael W. Toffel suggests the challenges activists and governments mount against one firm can inspire industry-wide change.