Enhancing the Impact of Cross-Sector Partnerships: Four Impact Loops for Channeling Partnership Studies

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-17

  van Tulder, Rob ^a   Seitanidi, M May ^b   Crane, Andrew ^c   Brammer, Stephen ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross sector partnerships; Effectiveness; Impact; Monitoring and evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949519447     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2756-4     Document Type: Article

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