Sustainable Business and Developing Collaborative Interorganizational Relationships
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 8999
Special Issue Editors
2. Tias School for Business and Society, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
Interests: how organisations deal with a diversity of interests, identities and perspectives and how trust between organizations can be built, dynamics of small groups
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2. Faculty of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 400000, Romania
Interests: team dynamics; social cognition; decision-making in organizations; multiparty collaboration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A Special Issue will be prepared for the journal Sustainability that has, as a theme, Sustainable Business and Developing Collaborative Interorganizational Relationships. We invite papers that focus on the interorganizational relationships of multi-stakeholder initiatives involving private, public organizations and non-profit organizations, that aim to address societal and environmental problems.
Themes can be:
- What makes these collaborative initiatives successful in terms of contributing to the societal sustainable development goals, from a relational point of view;
- What are the organizational and relational dynamics when working in such partnerships where a diversity of interests, identities and perspectives is prevalent (e.g. dynamics around trust, power, conflict, identities);
- What entails adequate governance of these initiatives and what are the challenges thereof;
- What are important factors in creating such collaborative initiatives, e.g., how to involve various stakeholders and engage them; how to design collaborative multi-stakeholder initiatives; how to intervene so as to develop collaboration; how to develop collaborative skills for those participating in these partnerships;
- What are critical perspectives on such collaborative multi-stakeholder initiatives.
We invite papers from various disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, organization theory, policy sciences, environmental sciences, or combinations thereof. Contributions can be theoretical and/or empirical. Paper should be not exceed 10.000 words, including references and appendices.
Prof. Dr. Sandra Schruijer
Prof. Dr. Petru Curşeu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- interorganizational collaboration
- relational dynamics
- governance
- intervention and development
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