The governance of collaboration for sustainable development: Exploring the “black box”

Vázquez‐Brust, Diego; Pião, Roberta Souza; Melo, Mary de Sousa de Fernanda; Yaryd, Rodrigo Trotta; Carvalho, Marly Monteiro de

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120260

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“…Furthermore, studies also highlight that there would be differences in the contractual governance of partnerships, depending on the partner type (inter-firm vs. cross-sector) [220]. However, there has generally been limited attention to this area in literature, which requires further attention [221,222]. Notably, future research needs to investigate the differences in inter-organizational learning in inter-firm and cross-sector partnerships for various governance forms and examine the how governance affects the learning mode and type and the impact of learning on sustainability performance.…”

Section: Partnership Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

Dzhengiz

2020

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Sustainable development goals (SDGs) have become increasingly important for today’s firms as they build sustainability strategies that integrate SDGs into their core activities. Addressing these goals collaboratively, in line with SDG 17—partnerships for the goals, has gained momentum, hence the growing literature on sustainability-oriented partnerships. However, addressing SDGs through partnerships is not straightforward. For firms, contributing to SDGs through alliances and partnerships requires building environmental capabilities and embracing new value frames; in other words, going through the complex process of inter-organizational learning. This paper reviews the literature on sustainability-oriented partnerships with a focus on the inter-organizational learning process. As a result of the review, a model of inter-organizational sustainability learning is presented. This model captures the different levels and types of the inter-organizational learning process; partner and partnership characteristics that impact learning; the environmental conditions that set the conditions for learning to take place; the catalyst and inhibitors of learning; and finally outcomes of learning. This model expands and re-organizes the existing scholarly conversation about inter-organizational learning in the context of sustainability-oriented alliances and partnerships and offers a learning-based understanding of sustainability partnerships to practitioners. Based on the review, the paper proposes ideas for future research and contributes to the development of a future research agenda in the area of sustainability-oriented alliances and partnerships.

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Section: Partnership Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

Dzhengiz

2020

Sustainability

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“…These complex challenges cannot be overcome by a single organization. Thus, sustainable development requires collaboration from all stakeholders [3,30,31].…”

Section: Sustainability: Sustainable Development Goalsmentioning

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“…Researcher interests in collaboration have been diversified and divergently interpreted, which can be seen from various disciplines, for example, management [31,42], education [11,15,17], medicine [43,44], organizational behavior [45][46][47] and environmental science [8,11,48]. As well as across industries such as healthcare [49,50], tourism [51,52], agriculture [53,54], software [55,56] and automotive industry [57,58].…”

Section: Open Innovation: Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the collaboration between firms and different participating units has been broadly studied, for instance, with the customer [59,60], supplier [46,61,62], multi-stakeholders [37,[63][64][65], business [66][67][68], citizen [69][70][71], university [15,38], public sector/government [72][73][74][75], and even with their competitors [76,77]. As well as collaboration implementation in various aspects such as for new product development [61,78], technology [79,80] and knowledge transfer [11,81], as a means for sustainability [31,37,48,82], and as a pathway for competitive advantage and dynamic capability [38][39][40][41]60].…”

Section: Open Innovation: Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As stated in SDG 17, partnerships for the goals are encouraging collaboration across sectors as well as across countries. No single actor can perfectly achieve sustainable development goals, even within this particular SDG [31], because sustainable development is a complex task that requires joint force not only from internal capabilities, but also with external actors to overcome the organizational constraints. A growing body of extant research regarding collaboration as a factor to foster sustainable development has emphasized the importance of the cooperation approach.…”

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Road to Sustainability: University–Start-Up Collaboration

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Considerations on sustainability have growing attention not only for scholars and businesses, but also for almost everyone. However, accomplishing sustainable progress is complicated and cannot be completely reached by single individuals or organizations. Consequently, entrepreneurs striving for sustainable change might search for collaborations with universities to overcome their resource and technology constraints. A quantitative research method was employed to explore the value of such collaborations. Data were gathered via questionnaires, between February and March 2020, from entrepreneurs/start-ups that are spin-offs of the ten leading higher education institutions in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany). Correlation and logistic regression disclosed that start-ups with different sustainability goals employed dissimilar formats of collaboration with universities. Ecological-oriented entrepreneurs tend to utilize all three forms of university–start-up collaboration. On the contrary, social-driven start-ups are not likely to adopt any kind of collaboration with universities. While ventures with economical SDGs are prone to employ product and prototype development along with support from professors. The study extends the knowledge about the search for collaborations of start-ups when pursuing different SDGs. In the practical domain, this research can encourage entrepreneurs to cooperate with universities in order to achieve their sustainable goals beyond incubation and acceleration. Additionally, it can also trigger universities to supply resources for supporting start-ups, especially social-driven ventures, to facilitate them to accomplish sustainability as well as to reach the third mission of universities in terms of supporting society.

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Network ambidexterity and environmental performance: Code‐sharing in the airline industry

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The most common form of horizontal collaboration within the airline industry is code-sharing, which provides firms with many economic and operational benefits, although what happens in the environmental area is less certain. How should companies address code-sharing to contribute to sustainability? The main objective of this work is to analyse the impact that this type of horizontal collaboration can have on the environmental performance of airlines. From this, we propose that network ambidexterity-the ability to balance exploration with new partners and exploitation with prior partners-is an adequate strategy to solve agency problems derived from collaboration practices to achieve environmental outcomes. Using hierarchical regression analysis, our results reinforce code-sharing as a critical resource for the improvement of environmental performance and identify the moderating role of network ambidexterity in the impact of alliances on environmental performance.

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The governance of collaboration for sustainable development: Exploring the “black box”

Cited by 61 publications

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A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

A Literature Review of Inter-Organizational Sustainability Learning

Road to Sustainability: University–Start-Up Collaboration

Network ambidexterity and environmental performance: Code‐sharing in the airline industry

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