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Symposium 03. Social innovation through cross-sector partnerships
Thursday 5 June 16.00 - 17.20. VCC.Room.102
Organisers:
Filippo Giordano. Bocconi University. filippo.giordano@unibocconi.it
Marco Meneguzzo. University of Rome Tor Vergata. meneguzzo@economia.uniroma2.it
Session chair:
Reto Steiner. Bern University reto.steiner@kpm.unibe.ch
Panellists:
Stephen Osborne. University of Edinburgh Business School
Sophie Flemig. University of Edinburgh Business School
Filippo Giordano. Bocconi University
Denita Cepiku. University of Rome Tor Vergata
Ricardo Altimira Vega. IE Business School
Riccardo Mussari. University of Siena
Yvon Pesqueux. CNAM
Sharam Alijani. Neoma Business School
Description:
Collaborative management has become one of the most investigated topics in public
management research. It refers to inter-organizational arrangements able to address
problems that cannot be solved by single organizations (O’Leary, Gerard, Bingham 2006).
Research has mainly focused on the issues of managing networks, including cross-sector
collaborations such as PPPs and public-non profit partnerships (O’Toole 1997; Kickert et al.
1997; Klijn and Koppenjan 2000; Mandell 2001), and on co-production of public services
(Osborne 2010). In particular cross-sector collaboration is increasingly assumed to be both
indispensable and desirable as a strategy for addressing several of society’s most difficult
public challenges. This is particularly true nowadays, when “there is a wide, and probably
growing, gap between the scale of the problems we face and the scale of the solutions on
offer” (Mulgan, et al. 2007) and there is a common awareness about the necessity to address
social issues through an innovative approach. Sectoral rationales for partnership suggest
that public, private, and non profit organizations each possess distinctive advantages that
can enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of public agencies’ efforts to address
social issues (Andrews, Entwistle 2010). Cross-sector partnerships, by combining the
resources and capabilities of organizations across sectors, can generate social innovation.
Social innovation consists of a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective,
efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues
primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals (Phills, Deiglmeier, & Miller,
2008, p. 39). The aim of the symposium is to take stock of the state of art of research and
practice on this topic by bringing together scholars that are studying it from different
sectoral and disciplinary angles.
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