Determinants in Competition between Cross-Sector Alliances

Abstract

Private, public, and not-for-profit organizations come together in cross-sector alliance projects and programmes (CSA) to bring about large-scale changes. CSA can often face determined competition from other alliances that oppose large-scale change or propose alterative large-scale changes. Competition can be related to people's deeply held beliefs arising from their ideologies, cultures, and/or other sources of entrenched preconceptions. In previous CSA research, there has been little consideration of competition between CSA involving people's deeply held beliefs. Accordingly, in this paper, a conceptual framework for better understanding CSA competition is introduced. This encompasses the influence of people's beliefs and related underlying determinants. This is necessary because there are many large-scale challenges that involve private, public, and not-for-profit organizations working together in projects and programmes against competition.

Moveable Production Systems for Sustainable Development and Trade: Limitations, Opportunities and Barriers

“…As well as enterprises that develop and operate moveable production systems, cross-sector alliances can include government and non-governmental organizations focused on sustainable development and trade. However, such cross-sector alliances should focus their efforts on meeting unmet demand for local sustainable production rather than go into direct competition with extant cross-sector alliances [150,151]. Thus, moveable production systems can be deployed to better enable sustainable development and trade by addressing gaps in supply from agglomerated, delocalized, production.…”