Partnership Outcomes Research Articles

Local Public Health System Partnerships

Interorganizational collaboration aimed at community health improvement is an expectation of local public health systems. This study assessed the extent to which such collaboration occurred within one state (Wisconsin), described the characteristics of existing partnerships, and identified factors associated with partnership effectiveness. In Stage 1, local health department (LHD) directors in Wisconsin were surveyed (93% response rate). In Stage 2, LHDs completed self-administered mailed surveys for each partnership identified in Stage 1 (85% response rate). Two-level hierarchical logit regression methods were used to model relationships between partnership and LHD variables and partnership outcomes. Data from 924 partnerships associated with 74 LHDs were included in the analysis. Partnerships most frequently addressed tobacco prevention and control, maternal and child health, emergency planning, community assessment and planning, and immunizations. Partnering was most frequent with other government agencies, hospitals, medical practices or clinics, community-based organizations, and schools. Partnership effectiveness was predicted by having a budget, having more partners contributing financially, having a broader array of organizations involved, and having been in existence for a longer period of time. A government mandate to start the partnership was inversely related to successful outcomes. Characteristics of LHDs did not predict partnership effectiveness. Financial support, having a broader array of partners, and allowing sufficient time for partnerships to succeed contribute to partnership effectiveness. Further study-using objective outcome measures-is needed to examine the effects of organizational and community characteristics on the effectiveness of local public health system partnerships.

Social partnership strategies in two health service trusts

Based on longitudinal case study research amongst ancillary staff in two health service trusts in the same region, this article analyses the strategies that management and trade unions adopted in their approach towards workplace social partnership. The article highlights the differentiated principles, practices and outcomes of partnership in the two trusts, by initially drawing on the “deliberate” and “emergent” strategy spectrum of Mintzberg and Waters. Whilst “deliberate” strategy focuses on direction and control, “emergent” strategy suggests a learning process in the search for effective patterns of behaviour and decision making outcomes. However, departing from the essentially managerialist underpinnings of the conceptualisation, the article seeks to understand how organised labour interacts with management in the creation and development of strategy in both ideal type scenarios. In this respect, the article utilises the “theory of the firm”, in particular, transaction cost analysis and the resource based view of the organisation, to aid our understanding of this complex process.

University-School Teacher Education Partnerships in North Carolina

Prospective teachers spending a year in classrooms … Teachers and professors studying problems that teachers face every day … Teachers co-teaching methods courses with university professors … These are some of the exciting outcomes of university-school teacher education partnerships in North Carolina.[1] Current interest in university-school collaboration in teacher education is high in the United States. The University-School Teacher Education Partnerships (USTEP) program, under way in North Carolina's 15 state-supported institutions that prepare teachers, is such a collaboration. The partnerships have been supported annually by the North Carolina legislature with $1.8 million (Coble, 1999a). The involved universities prepare roughly 70% of the teachers in the state each year. USTEP now is more than five years old, and we can begin to report some of its experiences, problems and successes.

Collaboration: Aligning resources to create and sustain partnerships

Academic-service partnerships are the future. These partnerships require a new paradigm and new practice models that necessitate change in how and where decisions are made as well as who is accountable for both the decisions and the outcomes of those decisions. The role of organizational leaders in this new paradigm becomes aligning resources to create and sustain partnerships. Partnerships are relationships and are only as effective as the communication between all entities. Decision-making is an important outcome of partnerships, yet there is little research regarding specific behavioral strategies that promote quality problem solving and decision-making. This paper extends the work of organizational theorist Ralph Stacey by proposing an event-driven typology of behavioral strategies for problem solving. The typology can assist organizational leaders to align resources for best practices in academic-service partnerships and be used as a framework for future research.

Swimming against the tide: social partnership, mutual gains and the revival of ‘tired’ HRM

This paper explores the theoretical antecedents underpinning the social partnership approach and examines the motives behind, and the potential benefits of, the partnership agenda as a model for the future of employment relations. It puts forward an analysis that eschews a simplistic ‘good’ or ‘bad’ interpretation of partnership. Instead, it argues for a framework that is sensitive to its evolution and complex construction. Central to this approach is the recognition that both management and trade unions are faced with a series of complex choices in responding to partnership, and that the evolution and outcomes of partnership are influenced by the prevailing economic environment, regulatory infrastructure and political ideology. The paper suggests that in the context of the UK partnership represents an attempt to renew what we consider to be the ‘tired’ project of HRM, in order to overcome the historic difficulties of constructing the project of the high-performance workplace.

Partnerships for Urban Infrastructure Development in India

Partnerships forged among equal partners have more chances of being successful. This article presents an analytical framework for a complete project cycle of a partnership, which includes nine components: organ izational arrangements as choice making; selection and commitment of partners; objectives and core com petencies of the partners; partnership inputs and outcomes; involvement of partners in a programme, staff for a partnership; operations of a partnership; evaluation of a partnership; and a decision to modify or quit a partnership. This framework was applied to the Urban Basic Services Programme in Delhi. It was found that in spite of the fact that this partnership was theoretically sound, it could not achieve its chief objectives of creating sustainable community structures and convergence of basic service providers due to exclusion of local communities during important stages of the formation of the partnership. The only objective it could successfully achieve was that of universal immunization of children.

Partner similarity and relationship satisfaction: Development of a compatibility quotient

The development of a measure of partner compatibility based on similarity in physique, personality, intelligence, social background, attitudes, habits and leisure preferences is described. Subjects chose one out of five scaled responses to each of 25 questions and consistency with the protocols of other persons used to derive Compatibility Quotients (CQs) for each coupling, calibrated so as to approximate to the IQ model (mean of 100 and SD of 15). Within a sample of 115 UK therapists and their heterosexual partners, the CQ was found to correlate with Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment scores (r=0.33 for males, p<0.01, and 0.28 for females, p<0.01). The mean CQ of established (married or cohabiting) couples was 116.04, compared with 99.75 for randomly paired couples from the same professional pool, and 101.32 for all couplings from a large British standardization sample. Since CQ scores were uncorrelated with relationship duration, this was not due to couples growing more alike with time. Although confirmation with longitudinal studies is necessary, these results suggest that the CQ may have value in predicting partnership outcomes.

Interdisciplinary and distance education in the Delta: the Delta Health Education Partnership

The purpose of this article is to describe the activities and outcomes of the Delta Health Education Partnership (DHEP), an interdisciplinary and distance education program developed to promote 'anytime, anywhere' education. The goal of the project is to recruit, educate, and retain interdisciplinary groups of primary care health practitioners to increase access to health care in medically underserved and health professional shortage areas of the lower Mississippi Delta. The targeted health providers are certified nurse midwives, physician assistants, and family nurse practitioners. The DHEP program spans six universities across four primarily rural states. Primary health care students in the lower Mississippi Delta region are taught using asynchronous technology strategies including Internet-based coursework. Opportunities to expand educational options for distance learners and geographically bound students are explained. In addition, methods of building community partnerships in an effort to recruit and retain primary care providers are also explained. The advantages and limitations of the asynchronous Internet-based courses are explored as part of the program evaluation.

Progress in partnerships

This is the fourth in a series of five articles Partnership—between organisations, services, and frontline staff—is widely promoted as an alternative to large scale structural reorganisation of the relation between...

Partnership at Work: Mutuality and the Balance of Advantage

A framework for the analysis of partnership at work is presented, emphasizing the principles, practices and outcomes of partnership. A survey using matched samples of 54 UK management and employee representatives found a link between partnership principles and practices, between practices and ratings of employee attitudes and behaviour, between these and estimates of positive employment relations and quality and productivity, finally between productivity and sales and profitability. The findings support a mutual gains model but show that the balance of advantage is skewed towards management and reflects generally low management trust in employee representatives.

Devolution, Planning Guidance and the Role of the Planning System in Wales

The paper outlines the implications of the National Assembly for Wales for the planning system and planning policy for Wales. The advent of the Assembly has brought a new emphasis on strategic planning, inclusive partnership working and outcomes. The Assembly's Corporate Plan- Betterwales- has three major themes: sustainable development, tackling social disadvantage and equal opportunities, and contains a commitment to producing a National Spatial Planning Framework. Initial stages are in progress, the framework will draw on spatial aspects of the new Planning Policy Wales, the Assembly's vision, strategies and its Sustainable Development Scheme, research and spatial planning experience, in the UK and Europe, and the work of the Assembly's agencies, and Welsh local planning authorities.

On The Performance Of Technology-Sourcing Partnerships: The Interaction Between Partner Interdependence And Technology Attributes

This study examines the outcomes of technology-sourcing partnerships from the sourcing firms' point of view. Using a knowledge-based perspective, the authors develop a contingency model suggesting ...

Production and applications of advanced grades of tungsten carbide and binder powders: B.Mende et al. (H.C.Starck GmbH, Goslar, Germany.)

An auxiliary power unit (APU) is presented that is fuelled with diesel, thermally self-sustaining, and based on a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The APU is rated at 1 kW electrical, and can generate electrical power after a 3 h warm-up phase. System features include a “dry” catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) diesel reformer, a 30 cell SOFC stack with an open cathode, and a porous-media afterburner. The APU does not require a supply of external water. The SOFC stack is an outcome of a development partnership with H.C. Starck GmbH and Fraunhofer IKTS, and is discussed in detail in an accompanying paper.

Urban Partnerships, Governance and the Regeneration of Britain's Cities

Thirty years of initiatives have resulted in only partial achievement of the regeneration of Britain's manufacturing cities hard hit by deindustrialization. City centres and waterside districts have been regenerated, but much poor-quality housing and derelict land remains. Unmet social needs in inner cities are characterized by up to one-third of residents living in poverty, 40% male unemployment rates, and some households into a third generation of lifelong unemployment. It is for these reasons that the government recently established a high-profile Urban Task Force, headed by the architect Lord (Richard) Rogers. The task force confirmed what many regeneration practitioners and inner-city residents knew: that while the nation has become better at property-led regeneration, it has not cracked the hard nut of helping households disadvantaged by long-term unemployment or the inability to work. Almost all regeneration initiatives in Britain are now predicated on partnership between local government, business and voluntary organizations. There are at least 700 such urban partnerships, with as many as 75 operating in a single city at sub-regional, city-wide and neighbourhood levels. As the main organizational vehicle for regeneration, the effectiveness of these partnerships has become a factor in the achievement of the nations' urban policy objectives. The rise of partnership in Britain mirrors a broader concern around the world for government to work with civil society in the challenging task of urban governance. The findings of a study of 27 regeneration partnerships in nine city-region 'clusters' in England, Scotland and Wales are summarized. The findings include factors which directly influence the effectiveness of partnerships, and a group of governance factors. These influence partnership and regeneration outcomes, but are outside of the control of partnerships. They are as follows: the modernization of British local government, an emerging regional development framework and the need for effective national policy.

Environmental NGO-business collaboration and strategic bridging: a case analysis of the Greenpeace-Foron Alliance

Environmental NGO–business collaborative partnerships, commonly called green alliances, are encouraging corporate enviropreneurship, entrepreneurial innovations that address environmental problems and result in operational efficiencies, new technologies and marketable ‘green’ products. Aside from offering environmental, scientific and legal expertise, environmental NGOs can provide linkages to other societal stakeholders, referred to as strategic bridges, to support enviropreneurial initiatives. This article focuses on the linkage capabilities of environmental NGOs by developing an extended strategic bridging framework that articulates necessary process contingencies and engagement strategies for building effective bridges with environmental stakeholders. Propositions are advanced and tested in an analysis of the alliance between Greenpeace and Foron Household Appliances in Germany during 1992–93 for the marketing of an environmentally responsible refrigerator. Stakeholder characteristics and partnership outcomes reveal managerial implications and conceptual extensions of strategic bridging in green alliances, and future research directions are discussed. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Working with the Experts: Collaborative research with people with an intellectual disability

ABSTRACT This paper reports on part of a wider study concerned with the collaborative efforts of an inquirer and six people with an intellectual disability, to develop a grounded theory explaining the processes by which these informants manage the relationships within their personal communities. The study was conducted through a series of in-depth interviews with each informant; a process characterised by information sharing, tentative theory development and elaboration, and informants' checking the accuracy of the emerging theory. This inductive approach allowed not only an insight into the lives of each informant, but recognised the informants' expertise in matters concerning their own lives and thus facilitated the emergence of theoretical elements of relevance to the informants themselves. The focus of the paper is on the collaborative or partnership approach adopted. The outcomes of the research partnership are detailed and implications drawn for the role of research in the lifestyles of people with an intellectual disability.

Städtenetze — Erwartungen und Wirklichkeit aus ökologischer Sicht

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The Experience of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Musharakah Financing

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Linking Science and Practice in Management of Childhood Language Disorders

Researchers, practitioners, as well as policy makers have shown increasing concern with persistent gaps between the generation and use of scientific knowledge in educational and therapeutic practices. This article includes an analysis of this issue with a specific focus on childhood language disorders. Two science-practice linkage models are presented with discussion of the applicability of each to improvements in practice. Strategies for integrating research within everyday practices are considered, including case examples that illustrate the formation, processes, and outcomes of partnerships between university-based researchers and practicing speech-language pathologists.

Introduction: Challenges of community-based program outcome evaluations

Numerous community partnerships across the country were funded to prevent substance abuse, beginning around 1990. Most of these partnerships were supported by SAMHSA-CSAP; about a dozen others were supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ). Nearly all the partnerships received awards for a five-year period, and the articles in this special section of the journal are devoted to a report on the outcomes from these partnerships. In all cases, the outcomes are reported in terms of behavioral changes related to substance abuse. (In all cases, the articles draw on broader evaluations that measured many other partnership outcomes, but these are not reported in this special section.) Conducting outcome evaluations of community partnerships raises challenging methodological problems, mainly because the unit of analysis is the community and most evaluations will have to be “small- n” studies. This introductory paper discusses the full rationale underlying the importance of community partnerships in preventing substance abuse, discusses the conceptual and methodological challenges of evaluating such partnerships, and then briefly indicates how each of the ensuing articles tries to deal with these challenges.