Evolving Partnerships : A Guide to Working with Business for Greater Social Change.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Box 1: The importance of business -- 1 A planet of partnerships -- Box 2: Defining partnership -- Box 3: Understanding partnerships -- Box 4: Some illustrative benefits and limits of partnership -- 2 Generations of partnership -- Box 5: Some illustrative benefits and limits of first-generation partnerships -- Box 6: Inspi(RED) funding-raising or (RED)wash? The case of Product(RED) -- Box 7: Example of a second-generation partnership: the Ethical Trading Initiative -- Box 8: Some illustrative benefits and limits of second-generation partnerships -- 3 Transcending limitations with a third generation of partnerships -- Box 9: Types of third-generation partnership -- Box 10: The Allianz Partnership -- 4 Assessing your partnering -- Box 11: Assessing your generation of partnerships -- Box 12: Reflecting on a company's readiness to partner -- Box 13: Assessing your organisational stage of targeting the market -- Box 14: Mapping readiness to partner -- Box 15: Typical evaluation approaches -- Box 16: Partnership SWOT -- Box 17: Developing a plan for evaluating partner fitness -- Box 18: Evolutionary theory, the organisation and social change -- 5 Evolving to the next generation of partnership -- Box 19: Evolving to the second generation -- Box 20: Interpersonal processes that create social systems -- Box 21: Beginning a journey to third-generation societal partnerships -- Box 22: Clarifying a desired transformation and transformational partnership -- 6 The challenges facing third-generation partners -- Box 23: Some illustrative benefits and limits of third-generation partnerships -- Box 24: Problems with partnerships for carbon cap-and-trade -- 7 The particular opportunities and challenges of third-generation partnerships for development.

Box 25: The sought-after qualities of managers of sustainable, inclusive business -- Box 26: Project characteristics of sustainable, inclusive business initiatives -- Box 27: Future guidance -- Conclusions -- Box 28: List of exercises -- About the author -- Lifeworth Consulting.

This guidebook seeks to distill the author's 15 years of experience with the advanced strategic planning of partnerships. Its aim is to enable those involved in cross-sectoral partnerships to achieve a greater scale of impact and effect social change.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.