15 CROSS-SECTOR ALLIANCES

DOI: 10.4324/9781003222187-15

The challenges that societies currently face are highly complex and unprecedented. Many of these challenges, such as climate change, scarcity of natural resources, increasing globalization, terrorism, poverty and food shortages, cannot be resolved within the public sector alone. Consequently, collaboration between private firms and public organizations, such as governments, universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has become increasingly important. These cross-sector alliances (or public–private partnerships) provide opportunities for partners to share resources and expertise, which allows more effective solutions in keeping with individual and communal objectives. However, ...

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