Cross‐sector partnerships: Mapping the field and advancing an institutional approach
通过文献计量与定性综述，绘制跨部门伙伴关系的研究图谱，指出微观互动中的制度逻辑冲突被忽视，并构建了一个连接微观行动者与宏观制度框架的多层次分析平台。
Abstract Cross‐sector partnerships (CSPs) addressing economic, social, and environmental issues continue to be a vibrant topic in management research and beyond. However, compared to the exogenous factors that drive collaborative advantage through structures and governance, the endogenous problems of collaborating across different institutional logics, residing at the micro‐level of interactions among partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, have received scant attention. The preoccupation with success factors often leads to a bias toward the problem‐solving capacities of CSPs at the neglect of the considerable barriers to successful collaboration across sectors. This study addresses this shortcoming and extracts an institutional approach of CSPs from an integrative review of the literature combining bibliometric methods with qualitative reviewing. A bibliometric map shows how the literature is divided into several clusters, each addressing a specific type of CSP but not engaging much in exchange with other clusters. Zooming in on the clusters provides a more nuanced picture of how institutional theory has hitherto been applied to CSPs. We build on these pieces of the puzzle and assemble them into a preliminary framework that accounts for inter‐institutional conflicts in CSPs and actor‐level responses to these conflicts. Our framework introduces a new analytical platform that facilitates multi‐level research, bringing the micro‐level of individual actors back in and connecting it with institutional frames at the macro‐level.