Abstract
Using the 2008 Zaragoza International Exhibition “Water and sustainable development” as a case study, this paper aims to respond to the increasing demand for measurements of the effects and the implications of the performance of cross-sector partnerships from the perspective of their intended final beneficiaries. A contingency framework for measuring the short-, medium- and long-term effects of the 2008 Zaragoza International Exhibition is developed based on a “results chain” or “logic model”. Our results highlight that there are positive long-term synergies between the two main purposes of the 2008 Zaragoza International Exhibition; first, to increase public awareness of and commitment to the problems of water and sustainable development and, second, to make the city of Zaragoza better known internationally and to modernize its infrastructures. Although respondents to our survey consider that the long-term effects on the city are greater, the main short- and medium-term effects are related to awareness of water problems, sustainable development and non-governmental organizations. These results are in tune with what has happened around the city in the last 10 years providing indirect validity both to our study and to the proposed methodology.
Highlights
Organizations cannot individually address the complex challenges of sustainability on their own
Besides we provide the Comparative Fit Index (CFI) and the Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) which compare the fit of the model with the independence model
The impact of the EXPO on commitment to the problems associated with water and sustainable development has been considerable
Summary
These partnerships are increasingly being adopted by many companies, which have appreciated their potential to contribute to long-term competitive advantage [10], by governments, which see them as ways of producing public goods in collaboration with NGOs [5] and firms [11], and by many civil society organizations in order to develop novel solutions to complex, old problems [12] These partnerships have to address the challenges of assessing and reporting their non-financial performance under increasing demands for measurements of effects and their implications for general performance measurement [3]. An Appendix A, with the equations of the structural model used in the paper, and Supplementary Material, with an additional comparative study by socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents, has been included
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