**Apologies for Cross Postings**
For anyone interested in research on cross sector partnerships, economic development and
sustainability of natural resources - please join us for an engaging professional development
workshop at the Academy of Management meeting in Montreal on Saturday August 7th at 8:00
a.m. Pre-registration is recommended.
Lessons and Questions from Practice:
Cross Sector Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Academy of Management, Montreal, August 2010
Submission # 11359
Primary Sponsor: PNP
Co-Sponsors: BPS, ITC, SIM, ODC, ONE, OMT, PTC
Saturday, Aug 7, 8:00-11:00 a.m. in the St-Maurice Room at the Fairmont Queen
Elizabeth Hotel
Abstract
This PDW builds upon the lively and successful 2009 AOM Cross Sector Partnership PDW
convened in Chicago. This PDW will provide a dynamic interaction between academics and
practitioners who are interested in cross sector partnerships whose goals are economic
development for the disadvantaged and the sustainability of natural resources. Practitioners will
present learnings from partnerships in developing countries. Academics with expertise in cross
sector partnership research will engage with the issues presented from their various perspectives.
Together, all participants will explore and seek to further develop and/or to challenge extant
explanatory frameworks for successful collaborative cross-sectoral partnering. The goal of the
PDW is to build on alliance theory through interaction among researchers and practitioners
interested in cross sector partnerships. Ideas for future research or practice projects will be
generated.
The PDW format is designed to emphasize emergent themes and ideas. Practitioner themes will
be identified through an introductory conversation between scholar Ted London and Oxfam
senior global microinsurance officer David Satterthwaite, followed by a question and answer
session. During this time participants will identify issues, themes, theories, and ideas to surface in
the Idea Market, a lively and interactive activity in which participants post their ideas on the wall in
groupings they choose. From these groupings discussants will identify themes that will form the
basis of table discussions. Participants self select into tables of interest to discuss a particular
theme and to produce some logical conclusion. We have identified problems of practice, research
questions, theory identification, development, or overthrow, and practice outcomes like training as
possibilities.
Registration HTML: <http://program.aomonline.org/2010/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=11359>
Discussants:
Practitioner Discussant:
David Satterthwaite, Senior Global Micro-Insurance Officer, Oxfam America
Academic Discussants:
Ted London; U. of Michigan
Jonathan P Doh; Villanova U.
John W Selsky; U. of South Florida
Ans Kolk; U. of Amsterdam
Barbara Gray; Pennsylvania State U.
Jonathan Lewis Johnson; U. of Arkansas
May Seitanidi; Brunel Business School
Mary Tschirhart; North Carolina State U.
Oana Branzei; U. of Western Ontario
Hildy Teegen; U. of South Carolina
Patricia Marquez; U of San Diego
Facilitators:
Arno Eerikki Kourula; Helsinki School of Economics
Jacob Park; Green Mountain College
Amelia C. Clarke; U. of Waterloo
Jason Jesurum Jay; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anne Ellersiek; Tilburg University
Co-organizer
David Graham Hyatt
University of Arkansas
Case Western Reserve University
dhyatt@walton.uark.edu<mailto:
dhyatt@walton.uark.edu>
Co-organizer
Marlene J. Le Ber
Richard Ivey School of Business
The University of Western Ontario
mleber@ivey.ca<mailto:
mleber@ivey.ca>