Partnership Commitment Research Articles

Engagement logics: How partners for sustainability‐oriented innovation manage differences between organizational logics

AbstractInnovation partnerships frequently experience tensions due to differences in partners' organizational logics. The literature recommends that partners adopt collaborative, empathetic mindsets but even so, tensions can threaten outcomes and partnership continuation. Difficulties can be exacerbated when firms engage stakeholder organizations in sustainability‐oriented innovation projects, where each partner is seeking their own combination of social, environmental, and economic objectives. This study explores strategic responses to these differences in logics through eight case studies of sustainability‐oriented innovation engagements between a focal business and an external organization. The key finding is that partners can respond to their differing logics by shaping a new “engagement logic” that guides members of both (or all) organizations. A logic frame with four value‐related dimensions—value salience, instrumentality, temporality, and language—allows a subtly idiosyncratic engagement logic to be created that is acceptable to both parties. This classification of ingredients of a logic frame forms a wider contribution to the institutional‐logics literature. A complementary range of logic practices is identified, covering logic emergence, logic enactment, and boundary defining. The engagement logic aids the partnership by contributing to four partnership‐level generative outcomes: partnership commitment, capability integration, scope flexibility, and system orientation. A notable finding is the presence of a logic boundary, specified in work, time, and space, enabling the engagement logic to co‐exist with organizational logics; a research direction is whether this boundary also exists in logics at organizational and field levels. The study shows partnerships to be a new context within which novel logics can emerge, contributing to an understanding of how logics evolve.

AN INTERGENERATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM TO SUPPORT LATINE ELDERS: LESSONS LEARNED

Abstract Cultural adaptation and tailoring of caregiving interventions has garnered greater attention in part due to high levels of unmet need and poor intervention outcomes among dementia caregivers from racial and cultural groups. Additionally, there is a growing interest in understanding intervention mechanisms. We conducted a formative analysis of the process employed in the design of an intergenerational training program to support elders within the Latine community. A content analysis of memos and stakeholder listening sessions and document review guided this analysis. Framed within a discussion on the continuum of cultural adaptation, we report on lessons learned. Lessons include: 1) embracing community-led design, 2) demonstration of partnership commitment to facilitate trust-building, 3) consistent appreciative inquiry, and 4) demonstration of cultural centeredness within the partnership.

Improving partnership performance of BPJS Healthcare in Indonesia

PurposeThis study aims to investigate and analyze how to improve the partnership performance of BPJS Healthcare in Indonesia. The authors developed a new construct called engagement religious compliance (ERC). The antecedents of ERC include partnership commitment, perceived benefit and communication quality. This study will examine how the regression relationship of the five constructs will be. Therefore, their influence in increasing the partnership performance of BPJS Healthcare will be known as well.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a mixed method. Quantitatively, respondents comprised 88 leaders from 45 Islamic hospitals in collaboration with BPJS Healthcare in Central Java, Indonesia, selected through a census. Furthermore, the data collection technique of this study used a questionnaire and it will be then analyzed by using partial least squares-structural equation modeling. Then, qualitatively, the data collection technique used in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, whereas the data were analyzed by using the interpretivist approach.FindingsThe new ERC construct is proven to be able to improve the partnership performance of BPJS Healthcare in Indonesia. In addition to ERC, partnership performance can be increased through partnership commitment, perceived benefit and communication quality. ERC is proven to be a mediating variable in improving partnership performance.Originality/valueThis research used ERC, a variable that mediates the effect of partnership commitment, perceived benefit and communication quality on increasing partnership performance. ERC is a novelty proposed in this study because, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, it has not been discussed by any previous research.

Penta Helix Model Communication to Promote Appropriate and Green Technologies for Ayung River Preservation Program in Bali

The Ayung River Preservation Program in Bali involves the community and stakeholders to address the degradation of the river. This research focuses on implementing the Penthealix communication model to promote green technology and involve stakeholders in preserving the Ayung River, which is the longest river on the island. The degradation of the river watershed highlights the critical state of the water supply in Bali. Existing data shows that the decrease in river flow rates along the watersheds in Bali has reached 60%, which has the potential to cause a water crisis on the island of Bali. Using the case study method, this research uses in-depth interviews and FGDs with local communities and other stakeholders. Secondary data was also collected from reports in newspapers. The results of the study show that efforts to preserve the Ayung River are implemented in the Green Technologies Program, which includes: 1) Biopori Holes and Infiltration weels; and 2) Community-based waste management. In its implementation, a Penta-Helix collaboration model was built between 1) The Government; 2) Communities; 3) businesses; 4) Academicians; and 5) the media. This program runs the Penta-Helix partnership model, which prioritizes Attribute, communication, and Conflict Resolution Technique efforts to achieve Partnership Commitment between stakeholders.

Reflecting Culturally Responsive and Communicative Teaching (CRCT) through Partnership Commitment

The strategic approach to enhance cultural skills is aligned with social feeling and sense of belonging as an important element to underlie the interaction pathway with others’ diverse backgrounds. Such an approach of teaching model could be transformed and prepared to encourage ability to communicate and relate to others from diverse backgrounds. The following phase of sufficient integration amongst cognitive, social and emotional substance is reflect in the culturally responsive and communicative teaching (CRCT). This mode is an important element to advance the diverse students amidst an increasingly complex and pluralistic society. This paper is aimed at examining CRCT by having a critical look into the partnership commitment amongst interracial teachers’ daily school interaction. Data collection was conducted with 10 interracial teachers with a focus on the approach of how their partnership commitment is reflected and practiced in their daily school interaction. Thematic analysis was employed to obtain the main points of data to give insight into the multicultural school society. The findings reveal that an understanding of CRCT articulated into partnership engagement commitment has a core of three main points. These are: expanding self-awareness on cultural identity; enhancing culturally mediated emotion of social situations; and developing instructional practice for cultural sensitivity. The implication for students’ experiential learning in the multicultural classroom was also discussed. The contribution of this paper can be exerted among those involved in the education sectors. These include students, educators, principals, learning facilitators, researchers, educational technologist, instructional designers and practitioners. This is also included among the researchers who are interested in exploring, understanding and developing discerning perspectives on diversity and diverse learners in 21st century education. This study is expected to contribute by giving solving skills with the strategic approach articulated into a particular guideline to give a clear understanding in responding the multicultural classroom in the interracial school society context. This study is considered to elaborate the good feedback on the importance of CRCT in responding to emerging trends on the facades of diversity among diverse learners.

PRACTINCING DEGREE OF FIRST CYCLE HEAD MASTRES IN NORTH AL BATINAH GOVERNORATE IN SALTANATE OF OMAN OF THEIR ROLES IN ACTIVATING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL AND FAMILY

The target of this study is to identify the degree to which school principals in the first cycle of the North Al Batinah governorate in Sultanate of Oman practiced their roles in implementing the partnership between the school and student families, and whether there were statistically significant differences between the averages of the chosen sample participants in this subject in Oman and weather if there is a major role played by the amount of experience of each individual. The study sample consisted of 244 female teachers from the first field in the North Al Batinah governorate in Oman, who constituted 17.2% from the total 1422 female teachers. A questionnaire consisting of 30 items was used, divided into 3 sections (cultural field, educational field, and the social field). In order to ensure the validity and reliability of the tool, it was applied to 30 teachers outside the sample under study, as the percentage of stability was according to the Cronbach Alpha coefficient .976 At the end and after analyzing the data, the partnership between the school and the family showed a high degree of partnership commitment, with an average of 4.19. The results indicated statistically there was no significant differences between the averages of the sample members for the degree of participation of school principals in North Al Batinah in Sultanate of Oman partnership between the school and the family which was due to the years of experience of the individuals. The study recommended the necessity of adopting a program to exchange visits between the principals of the first cycle schools and their counterparts in the rest of the educational governorates in order to benefit from their high experience in activating the partnership between the school and the students families, it also recommended that the media should play a role in broadcasting and publishing some programs that enhances the culture of partnership between the school and the families, and to also include a special field for activating the partnership between the school and the family in the school´s annual plan and programs. In addition, it also recommended creating an electronic educational platforms for students to help the guardian to follow up on all what is presented to the student, so that the principals are able to face and keep pace with any upcoming new challenges ‎.

Partnership Commitment During a Global Pandemic

Riane Eisler challenges us to identify and embrace partnership relationships in every aspect of our lives — personal, social, cultural, environmental, and economic. Her trove of written work and public appearances shape a vision of our greater selves working together to achieve more than the sum of our separate lives. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality of overwhelming separation, grief, loss, and social distancing begs the question: Is it truly possible to achieve partnership values? Sometimes, we need to step away from news reports and social media to seek comfort in the stories that make positive differences in our lives. In this article, the author shares a story, more than three decades in the making, of a small group of committed volunteers who tackle a most difficult and disturbing form of oppression — child sexual abuse. An annual camp program, first requested by child survivors themselves, is deeply linked to partnership system ideologies. The Victory Over Child Abuse (VOCA) Camp story actualizes partnership values by firmly wrapping them around a tenacious vision of intentionally safe community. When communities commit to partnership systems, healing and non-violence become the norm, social transformation is possible, and children are safe.

Effects of Partnership Quality and Information Sharing on Express Delivery Service Performance in the E-commerce Industry

This study applies the partnership quality theory to investigate how the perceived information sharing quality from express delivery service providers can affect logistics service performance for online shoppers in terms of partnership quality (including trust and commitment) and willingness to share information from E-commerce enterprises. Based on 421 samples of E-commerce enterprises in China, the results of structural equation modelling revealed that perceived information sharing quality affects partnership trust, which in turn affects the partnership commitment and willingness to share information. Partnership quality and willingness to share information affect the perceived performance of the express delivery services. Surprisingly, information sharing quality does not play a role in commitment. This study provides a theoretical contribution to E-commerce supply chain research in constructing a cognition, affective, behavior, and conative performance model for further research.

Partnership-Based Supply Chain Collaboration: Impact on Commitment, Innovation, and Firm Performance

With increasing numbers of nodes and links in supply network relationships, understanding partnership management and the required level of collaboration is important for sustainable supply network alignment. This study explores the impact of partnership orientation on partnership commitment and firm performance using a model based on social capital theory and resource dependence theory. It aims to understand the appropriate partnership orientation for the desired level of commitment and firm performance, including innovation, operational, and financial performance. Using a survey of 423 respondents representing three different partnership structure types (supplier, buyer, and parallel-aligned firms’ perspectives), the relationship between partnership orientation and commitment in enhancing firm performance is investigated using structural equation modeling. Additional analysis identifies the moderating role of commitment and investment exchange on performance. The findings show that positive relationships between both investment and contractual-based partnership orientation positively contribute to partnership commitment, but the direct association between partnership commitment and firm performance type varies by partnership structure. Furthermore, (i) investment exchange level moderates the relationship between commitment and innovation and operational performance regardless of partnership structure type, (ii) negative investment exchange signals higher firm performance from the buyer firm’s perspective, and (iii) positive investment exchange is absolutely necessary for financial performance from the supplier firm’s perspective.

Beyond HIV-serodiscordance: Partnership communication dynamics that affect engagement in safer conception care.

IntroductionWe explored acceptability and feasibility of safer conception methods among HIV-affected couples in Uganda.MethodsWe recruited HIV-positive men and women on antiretroviral therapy (ART) (‘index’) from the Uganda Antiretroviral Rural Treatment Outcomes cohort who reported an HIV-negative or unknown-serostatus partner (‘partner’), HIV-serostatus disclosure to partner, and personal or partner desire for a child within two years. We conducted in-depth interviews with 40 individuals from 20 couples, using a narrative approach with tailored images to assess acceptability of five safer conception strategies: ART for the infected partner, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the uninfected partner, condomless sex timed to peak fertility, manual insemination, and male circumcision. Translated and transcribed data were analyzed using thematic analysis.Results11/20 index participants were women, median age of 32.5 years, median of 2 living children, and 80% had HIV-RNA <400 copies/mL. Awareness of HIV prevention strategies beyond condoms and abstinence was limited and precluded opportunity to explore or validly assess acceptability or feasibility of safer conception methods. Four key partnership communication challenges emerged as primary barriers to engagement in safer conception care, including: (1) HIV-serostatus disclosure: Although disclosure was an inclusion criterion, partners commonly reported not knowing the index partner’s HIV status. Similarly, the partner’s HIV-serostatus, as reported by the index, was frequently inaccurate. (2) Childbearing intention: Many couples had divergent childbearing intentions and made incorrect assumptions about their partner’s desires. (3) HIV risk perception: Participants had disparate understandings of HIV transmission and disagreed on the acceptable level of HIV risk to meet reproductive goals. (4) Partnership commitment: Participants revealed significant discord in perceptions of partnership commitment. All four types of partnership miscommunication introduced constraints to autonomous reproductive decision-making, particularly for women. Such miscommunication was common, as only 2 of 20 partnerships in our sample were mutually-disclosed with agreement across all four communication themes.ConclusionsEnthusiasm for safer conception programming is growing. Our findings highlight the importance of addressing gendered partnership communication regarding HIV disclosure, reproductive goals, acceptable HIV risk, and commitment, alongside technical safer conception advice. Failing to consider partnership dynamics across these domains risks limiting reach, uptake, adherence to, and retention in safer conception programming.

Challenging Remote Community Deficit Perspectives: An Australian Insight into the Role of These Communities in the Design of Their Health Services and the Development of Their Health Workforce

This article reports on findings from a qualitative study that explored the formation of a community-campus partnership, development and delivery of an allied health practice-based service-learning program, and impacts of partnership and program participation for community and campus participants. The partnership sought to address a protracted lack of access to allied health services for children residing in remote Australia. The program aligned occupational therapy and speech pathology student placements to the provision of allied health services to these children. Community participants – school principals and senior managers from local facilitating agencies, and campus participants – allied health students and academics were allocated to focus groups, school principals ( n = 7) and allied health students ( n = 10), and individual semi-structured interviews, senior managers ( n = 2) and academics ( n = 2). A constant comparative analysis method was used to analyse data. This article describes community perspectives of partnership initiation, catalysts for participation, and participation impacts. The role of community partners in initiating the partnership was described and conditions associated with remote contexts and health sector failures were identified catalysts. Service and learning adaptation, partnership commitment and service consistency, service acceptability and accessibility, and community investment in remote health workforce development were identified impacts. This article addresses significant gaps in the national and international practice-based service-learning literature, specifically from community and remote perspectives. Study limitations are discussed and implications for how community-campus partnerships are formed and service-learning programs are sustained in remote contexts are explored.

Studying Effective Factors on Employees Empowerment of Headquarters of Islamshahr Municipality

The objective of this research is Studying Effective Factors on Employees Empowerment Employees of Headquarters of Islamshahr Municipality. This is descriptive-correlation research with survey method. This research with respect to objective is regarded as applied research. Statistical society of this research is all employees of headquarters of Islamshahr municipality. In this research 120 persons were selected as volume sample by using class sampling method. The tool for collecting data was questionnaire and Alpha Cronbach of 0.90. In order analyze data, it was benefit from descriptive and inferential statistics. Results of comparing relationship between organizational commitment and Employees empowerment index reveal that there is significant relationship between decision making of employees at headquarters of Islamshahr municipality for partnership and organizational commitment. Coefficient of change at educational indices in relation to priority of educational indices reveal that completed courses are practical and are compatible with job requirements and education received at university, so that employees believe it leads to improving empowerment and job satisfaction. Results of F show that there is significant relationship between organizational commitment and following indices including: job compatibility, experience, being informed of subsidiary affairs, status of required skills, regular supervision, economic status, report, partnership at decision making, appropriate salary and arrangement of activities. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6p67

Intra-couple Caregiving of Older Adults Living Apart Together: Commitment and Independence.

Recently, rising numbers of mid-life and older adults are starting a "living apart together" (LAT) relationship following divorce or widowhood. LAT describes an intimate relationship wherein partners maintain separate households. This study investigated the characteristics of care arrangements in older long-term LAT couples and elicited personal comments about intra-couple care. We interviewed 25 LAT partners and a comparison group of 17 remarried older adults in the Netherlands in a side study of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study. Results showed that about half of the LAT partners intended to exchange care if needed (partnership commitment); the other half had ambiguous feelings or intentions to refuse care (independence orientation). However, for those LAT partners already confronted with illness in their current relationship, all provided care to the partner in need. The minority of LAT partners who would not exchange care reciprocally are more likely to give as opposed to receive care.

Strategic Partnership: Potential for Ensuring the University Sustainable Development

The purpose of the article is to research the theoretical approaches to strategic partnerships of universities, analyse the current trends of partnership development of universities in the context of sustainable development, discuss the experience of the National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University in terms of strategic partnerships creation and define the new opportunities of developing the strategic partnerships. The methodology of the paper is based on comprehensive literature review in the sphere of university partnerships. The authors use a comparative method, analysis and summarizing aimed on defining the current trends and issues related to strategic partnership. There has been developed the partnership commitment chart of key stakeholders of universities to show current points and target points. The research findings are generalization of the strategic partnership theory with the focus on university activities in reference to sustainable development, clarification of current trends and issues of university strategic partnership, definition of further opportunities and methods in the area under consideration. Under modern conditions it is extremely important to develop a strategic partnership in the sphere of higher education. Universities are open institutions and they need to be involved into different processes of economy and society development. Article’s significance is in a new view on strategic partnership in the context of sustainable development of universities.

Satisfaction with Love Life Across the Adult Life Span

Three issues concerning the relationship between age and satisfaction with love life are examined in this study. The first issue concerns the age generalizability of the factor structure of the Satisfaction With Love Life Scale (SWLLS). The second issue explores the influence of background factors, namely age, on satisfaction with love life. Finally, the third issue concerns the relation between scores on the SWLLS with those on other relationship constructs. A total of 1,284 women (48 %) and men participated in the study. The mean ages were 38 years; ages ranged from 18 to 90. The results showed that the factor structure of responses to the Satisfaction With Love Life Scale are highly similar across the adult life. Adults reported higher satisfaction with love life than older adults. As predicted love life satisfaction was correlated with measures of other relational constructs. Satisfaction with love life was positively correlated with erotic and agapic orientations among young adults, adults and older adults. Unexpected significant positive associations between love satisfaction, and Ludus and Mania were found among adults. Significant negative correlations were found between love satisfaction, and romantic loneliness. Significant positive associations between love satisfaction, and partnership commitment, sexual desire, satisfaction with life and affective well-being were found for the three age groups, except for older adults and this last variable. Suggestions concerning possible uses of the SWLLS are advanced.

Effectively translating diabetes prevention: a successful model in a historically underserved community.

Lifestyle interventions can prevent diabetes through weight loss, but they are rarely translated for use in underserved communities. The aim of this study was to describe how a community-academic partnership formed and developed a program to address local health disparities by developing a low-cost, culturally and economically appropriate, peer-led community-based diabetes prevention program. Using a participatory approach, the partnership chose to focus on diabetes prevention, and co-developed all intervention, recruitment, research, and evaluation strategies. The partnership's philosophy to maintain high clinical and scientific standards paired with their ability to represent and engage the community facilitated the development of a randomized controlled trial that achieved statistically significant and sustained weight loss, and the recruitment of a largely Spanish-speaking, low income, uninsured population. The success of this intervention lies in the partnership's commitment to the community, co-ownership of research, and a careful balance between academic rigor and community engagement and relevance.

A passage to India: A dual case study of activities, processes and resources in offshore outsourcing of advanced services

Research has shown that offshore outsourcing processes may influence the behavior and strategic choices of firms, but little is known about the determining factors that influence the evolution and outcomes of those processes. Furthermore, longitudinal studies able to generate such insights are lacking. This paper suggests a detailed, activity-based approach to the study of the process of offshore outsourcing of high-value, advanced service activities. While earlier research has considered either firm-internal or firm-external sources of resource building, this study offers a more comprehensive theoretical model that combines resource-based theory and international business network theory. It aims to investigate how determinants of the offshore outsourcing process contribute to the resource stocks of client firms. Based on two longitudinal case studies of offshore outsourcing to India, the study finds that offshore outsourcing operations, in general, make positive contributions to the resource stocks of client firms. Some determinants contribute to the building of resources (partnership commitment decisions, knowledge creation and learning, trust building, the interconnectedness of resources) while others impede resource building (time compression diseconomies, lack of resource mass efficiencies). Notably, the interconnectedness among onshore activities, offshore activities and the underpinning knowledge resources reduces the risk of erosion of client firm resources, although this remains a long-term risk.

The meaning of commitment in professional service relationships: a study of the meaning of commitment used by lawyers and their clients

Several authors have identified the importance of commitment in successful business relationships. However, few studies have considered the meaning of commitment, especially within the context of customer-supplier relationships. Most studies of commitment within the marketing literature use existing conceptualisations developed within the psychology and organisational behaviour literatures. The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning of commitment in a customer-supplier relationship context, and to compare this with traditional conceptualisation of commitment. This study investigates the meaning of commitment used by both lawyers and their clients, within the context of their relationship. The findings show that the meaning of commitment used in professional relationships may be more complex than its traditional conceptualisation and should be extended to include at least three additional components including: 'partnership commitment', 'impression management commitment' and 'personal commitment'. It is argued that it is inappropriate to 'borrow' the conceptualisation of the construct of commitment from other disciplines, without considering the market-based context in which it is used. Implications for professional service relationships include that professionals and clients would benefit from sharing a similar meaning of commitment and this meaning may be influenced by the culture, systems and processes of their organisation.

Family Diversity and Change in Britain and Western Europe

The authors examine recent changes in family relationships in Britain and other countries in Western Europe. To begin with, the authors focus on demographic change, in particular the increased diversity in people's partnership behavior. In considering theoretical accounts that have been given for these changes, the authors explore the ways in which the character of partnership commitment is altering. Particular attention is paid to the growth of cohabitation and the effect this has on cultural understandings of marital commitment. The implications for wider kinship solidarities of changing practices around partnership commitment are discussed. A key theme within this concerns the diversity and complexity of the manner in which family and kinship are negotiated and constructed.

Partnership and community: The Grimethorpe Activity Zone

The Barnsley Partnership's commitment to involvement in the local community attempts to raise awareness of the role of the Partnership, and also to discover the key issues of importance to local people. This enables the Partnership to learn and understand the culture of local communities, to identify local education and training needs and those areas in which the Partnership can effectively add value. On the basis of no cash injection, the Partnership hopes to ensure self‐reliance and empowerment rather than dependence.