TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges and strategies of building and sustaining inter-organizational partnerships in sport for development and peace
AU - Welty Peachey, Jon
AU - Cohen, Adam
AU - Shin, Nari
AU - Fusaro, Bruno
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - While sport management scholars have explored inter-organizational partnerships and their associated challenges, they have devoted less attention to inter-organizational partnership development and sustainability in sport for development and peace (SDP), particularly across a wide range of organizations with varied missions and foci. Hence, the purpose of this qualitative study was to examine challenges faced by SDP organizations when forming and sustaining inter-organizational partnerships across contexts and partnership types, and to uncover strategies they have employed to overcome these challenges. Common challenges encountered across 29 SDP organizations included competition for resources, skepticism of sport as a development tool, unequal power relations, misaligned goals and mission drift, and implementation issues. Strategies included focusing on building relationships and networks, demonstrating benefits to partner, starting small then diversifying, keeping focused on mission and goals, involving partner, and treating the partnership as a business relationship. Theoretical extensions and practical implications are discussed, along with directions for future research.
AB - While sport management scholars have explored inter-organizational partnerships and their associated challenges, they have devoted less attention to inter-organizational partnership development and sustainability in sport for development and peace (SDP), particularly across a wide range of organizations with varied missions and foci. Hence, the purpose of this qualitative study was to examine challenges faced by SDP organizations when forming and sustaining inter-organizational partnerships across contexts and partnership types, and to uncover strategies they have employed to overcome these challenges. Common challenges encountered across 29 SDP organizations included competition for resources, skepticism of sport as a development tool, unequal power relations, misaligned goals and mission drift, and implementation issues. Strategies included focusing on building relationships and networks, demonstrating benefits to partner, starting small then diversifying, keeping focused on mission and goals, involving partner, and treating the partnership as a business relationship. Theoretical extensions and practical implications are discussed, along with directions for future research.
KW - Collaboration theory
KW - Inter-organizational partnerships
KW - Inter-organizational relationships
KW - Nonprofit sport
KW - Nonprofit sport organizations
KW - Sport for development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020649780&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.smr.2017.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.smr.2017.06.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020649780
SN - 1441-3523
VL - 21
SP - 160
EP - 175
JO - Sport Management Review
JF - Sport Management Review
IS - 2
ER -