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Challenges in Multiple Cross-Sector Partnerships

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lucie Thibault

Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

This research examines challenges associated with partnerships among a group of cross-sector organizations. The context for this study is a nonprofit organization in Canada's sport system and its numerous partners in public, nonprofit, and commercial sectors. The results reveal challenges in the areas of structure and strategy. Specifically, data uncover structural challenges with respect to problems with governance, roles, and responsibilities guiding the partnerships and with the complexity of partnership forms and structures. The data also uncover strategic challenges, in light of the focus on competition versus collaboration among various partners and the changes in missions and objectives through the duration of the relationship. The results and implications for nonprofit organizations involved in multiple cross-sector partnerships are discussed.

Key Words: cross-sector partnership • sport organizations • structural and strategic challenges

This version was published on February 1, 2009

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1, 117-143 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0899764008316054


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