‘Collaborative engagement for sustainability in the Asia Pacific region’
探讨企业与非商业组织（如政府、志愿团体）建立跨部门战略联盟以应对可持续发展挑战的现象，基于调查指出超90%企业高管认为此类伙伴关系将发挥重要作用。
The formation of strategic alliances between companies for mutual commercial benefit is a widely used approach by contemporary business. The development of such alliances with non-commercial organisations, such as government agencies and voluntary associations, to deliver social and environmental outcomes, is a more recent phenomenon. In the past decade such cross-sectoral strategic alliances have become a key mechanism for pursuing corporate sustainability and responsibility. By bringing together their respective competencies and resources for the greater good, people in governments, business, civil society and multilateral agencies have sought innovative ways to respond to many contemporary sustainable development challenges: climate change; human security; the prevention and treatment of major diseases; ethics, governance and responsible investment; entrepreneurship and employment; pension and superannuation funds management; and, sustainable financing for development. Globally, the appetite for such strategic alliances and stakeholder engagement appears strong. Over 90% of corporate executives responding to a World Economic Forum survey felt that in future ‘partnerships between business, government, and civil society would play either a major role or some role in addressing key development challenges.’ This interest is paralleled by an expanding literature on inter-organisational relations in management, organisation and international development studies, among other disciplines.