Success factors and the city-to-city partnership management process - from strategy to alliance capability

Habitat International

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-156

  de Villiers, J C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

C2C; City to city partnership; Decentralised cooperation; Sister cities; Strategic alliance; Twinning

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DECENTRALIZATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN SOCIETY;

AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60649120198     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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