Clarke Amelia, Crane Andrew
1Master of Environment and Business Program, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Room 4229, Environment 3 Building, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada.
2Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS), School of Management, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY UK.
J Bus Ethics. 2018;150(2):303-313. doi: 10.1007/s10551-018-3922-2. Epub 2018 Jun 1.
The literature on cross-sector partnerships has increasingly focused attention on broader systemic or system-level change. However, research to date has been partial and fragmented, and the very idea of systemic change remains conceptually underdeveloped. In this article, we seek to better understand what is meant by systemic change in the context of cross-sector partnerships and use this as a basis to discuss the contributions to the Thematic Symposium. We present evidence from a broad, multidisciplinary systematized review of the extant literature, develop an original definition of systemic change, and offer a framework for understanding the interactions between actors, partnerships, systemic change, and issues. We conclude with some suggestions for future research that we believe will enhance the literature in its next phase of development.
关于跨部门伙伴关系的文献越来越关注更广泛的系统性或系统层面的变革。然而，迄今为止的研究是片面且零散的，系统性变革这一概念在概念上仍未得到充分发展。在本文中，我们试图更好地理解跨部门伙伴关系背景下系统性变革的含义，并以此为基础讨论对专题研讨会的贡献。我们展示了对现有文献进行广泛、多学科系统综述的证据，提出了系统性变革的原创定义，并提供了一个框架来理解行动者、伙伴关系、系统性变革和问题之间的相互作用。我们最后提出了一些对未来研究的建议，我们相信这些建议将在其下一阶段的发展中丰富相关文献。
