Wednesday, 5 November 2008

J.Ahlstrom, E. Sjostrom(2005)”CSOs and Business Partnerships: Strategies for Interaction”






The object of this study is collaboration of Cross-sectoral partnership. This study shows Civil Society Organizations(CSOs) are divided into four: Preservers, Protesters, Modifiers, and Scrutinizers. And only Preservers have strategy to make partnership with firms, compared with independent strategies of others.

For companies seeking partner in their activities, it is important to understand which category the CSO belongs. Preservers are usually found easily because they were mainly formed in 1800-1970s and established their brand.


The structure of the paper is clear, and English is very easy to understand. But I do not think the category is right, category itself is true but strategy might be different from each others.


Q, why 4 kinds of CSOs take different strategy?
Q, what is partnership? Money?HR?
Q what is successful CSO?

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