Mariani Laura, Trivellato Benedetta, Martini Mattia, Marafioti Elisabetta
Department of Management, University of Bergamo, Via Dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, 20126 Milan, Italy.
J Bus Ethics. 2022;180(4):1075-1095. doi: 10.1007/s10551-022-05193-z. Epub 2022 Jul 14.
The role to be played by multi-stakeholder partnerships in addressing the 'wicked problems' of sustainable development is made explicit by the seventeenth Sustainable Development Goal. But how do these partnerships really work? Based on the analysis of four sustainability-oriented innovation initiatives implemented in Belgium, Italy, Germany, and France, this study explores the roles and mechanisms that collaborating actors may enact to facilitate the pursuit of sustainable development, with a particular focus on non-profit organizations. The results suggest that collaborative innovations for sustainability contribute simultaneously to the fulfilment of different Sustainable Development Goals, reaching beyond their original intent, and that the value being created has the potential to reinforce such roles and mechanisms. These partnerships are prompted and managed by non-profit organizations that act as metagovernors of collaborative innovation processes as they play the roles of cultural spreaders, enablers, relational brokers, service provides, and influencers. These findings will help policy-makers and practitioners in the public and non-profit sector to identify and utilize emerging opportunities for value creation through collaborative innovation, and to better design existing and prospective collaborative efforts aimed at sustainable objectives, thereby supporting progress towards the implementation of Agenda 2030.
第十七项可持续发展目标明确了多方利益相关者伙伴关系在解决可持续发展“棘手问题”中所应发挥的作用。但这些伙伴关系究竟是如何运作的呢？基于对在比利时、意大利、德国和法国实施的四项以可持续发展为导向的创新举措的分析，本研究探讨了合作行为体为促进可持续发展的追求可能发挥的作用和机制，特别关注非营利组织。结果表明，可持续发展的合作创新同时有助于实现不同的可持续发展目标，超越其最初意图，并且所创造的价值有可能强化此类作用和机制。这些伙伴关系由非营利组织推动和管理，这些非营利组织作为合作创新过程的元治理者，发挥着文化传播者、推动者、关系撮合者、服务提供者和影响者的作用。这些发现将帮助公共部门和非营利部门的政策制定者和从业者识别和利用通过合作创新创造价值的新机会，并更好地设计旨在实现可持续目标的现有和未来合作努力，从而支持朝着《2030年议程》的实施取得进展。
