Private-nonprofit partnership in the context of CSR: the importance of relationship learning

Abstract

In recent years, Cross-Sector Social Partnerships (CSSPs) have become widely adopted by companies, governments and NGOs as mechanisms for working together in order to address complex social issues by combining different rationales to create collaborative value. Given this context, various authors have focused on the study of such partnering processes, proposing different key determinants to favour collaborative value creation, but without making any detailed analysis of those determinants.

Based on the business-to-business (B2B) literature, the present study contributes to current knowledge about CSSPs by conducting an in-depth analysis of relationship learning, one of the key determinants that the CSSPs literature has identified in the improvement of value creation.