Annual Review of Social Partnerships

ARSP Editorial Board

Adolf Acquaye A Lecturer in Sustainability at the Kent Business School, University of Kent in the United Kingdom. He has published on Green Supply Chain Management and on Sustainability Research in leading international journals. Dr. Acquaye is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report-AR5 (Chapter 10- Industry in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change). Verena Bitzer A Senior Advisor at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Prior to this she spent two years at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business as a postdoctoral researcher. Her research expertise lies on business-NGO partnerships, co-innovation and sustainability standards as mechanisms to address complex sustainability challenges in global value chains. She has extensive experience in carrying out research in developing and emerging economies (e.g. Malawi, Peru, South Africa). Jill Bogie A PhD candidate at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa and holds an MPhil in Futures Studies. Her research interests include cross-sector collaboration, the sustainability agenda for business, narrative inquiry and a theoretical approach called the communicative constitution of organization (CCO), which is a process view of organizing and organization through conversation and narratives (or texts). Amelia Clarke An Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, where she is also Director of the Master of Environment and Business (MEB) executiveeducation online program. Her main research focuses are related to strategies for sustainable development, and include a half million dollar team project on structuring cross-sector social partnerships to more effectively achieve local sustainability and climate action goals and other desired partner outcomes. Domenico Dentoni A Assistant Professor in Agribusiness Management and Strategy at Wageningen University and Principal Investigator at the Global Center for Food Systems Innovation. With funding from the Governments of Ecuador, Malaysia, Poland, Australia and the US, he leads projects on designing, managing, bridging and evaluating multi-stakeholder partnerships that stimulate systems innovation in agribusiness. He won the Best PhD Thesis 2010 award in Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. Publications are available on his blog David Hyatt (D.M.) is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansass Sam M. Walton College of Business. Hyatts primary research and teaching interests concern collaboration and sustainability in global supply chains. He has recently developed a masters class on this topic and has coauthored a series of teaching cases about Walmarts sustainability journey, including two cases on multi-stakeholder collaboration for defining sustainable products, published at http://sustainabilitycases.uark.edu. Arno Kourula A Assistant Professor of Strategy at the University of Amsterdam Business School in the Netherlands and a Docent at Aalto University in Finland. His primary research and teaching interests are cross-sector interactions and corporate responsibility. His articles have appeared in such journals as Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society, Energy Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of World Business, and Research Policy Jennifer S. A. Leigh A Associate Professor of management at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, USA. Her research addresses responsibility management education, cross-sector partnerships, and scholarship of engagement. She is an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Education (JME). Jessica Mankowski (M.E.S) is a Senior Advisor for Knowledge Translation Strategy with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Over the past ten years she has worked primarily in fields of environment and health to build capacity for evidence-based decision making and interest in the opportunities presented by cross-sector partnerships (CSPs). Her research has focused on the drivers and enablers of CSPs and the use of complex systems theory to explore these fascinating relationships Julia H Diaz Ramirez Holds a bachelors degree in computer science and a masters degree in industrial engineering. She is currently a Ph.D student of Management at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Her research examines the reasons of small businesses to collaborate with non-profit organizations. She has worked in the public sector in education and also in e-government. Cheryl Martens A Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, Corporate and Marketing Communications Group. Cheryl is currently based in Quito, Ecuador, where she is Head of Research at University of the Americas. She has researched and published in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility and cross-sector Social Partnerships, and has recently co-edited The International Political Economy of Communication: Media and Power in South America (Palgrave MacMillan) with Robert McChesney and Ernesto Vivares. Lucian J. Hudson The Director of Communications, The Open University (OU). He has held top communications posts in four UK government departments, including Director of Communication, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Director of e-Communications, Cabinet Office. Before joining the OU, Lucian advised government, business and NGOs, and was a senior executive and television journalist with the BBC and ITV for 17 years. His research into cross-sector collaboration is regularly published in academic journals and handbooks. M. May Seitanidi (FRSA) A Associate Professor of Strategy at Kent Business School, University of Kent, Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) at Nottingham University Business School, and Visiting Professor at LUISS Business School, Rome. She has published extensively on CSSPs in academic journals as well as popular press. Her work for over 20 years, as a practitioner and academic, focused on all types of cross-sector social interactions, previously on philanthropy and socio-sponsorship and for the last years on social partnerships. Sallla Laasonen A Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) at Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Before starting at RSM, she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA, and a postdoctoral researcher at Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests focus on corporate responsibility, cross-sector interactions, and stakeholder participation processes. Her work has been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, and Corporate Governance. Ozgu Karakulak A PhD student at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and works as a research and teaching assistant. Her research focuses on the tensions and the change process at the Cross-Sector Social Partnerships. She holds a BA degree in economics, MA degrees in Development Studies and Management Science. Previously she worked for several NGOs. Jose Carlos A PhD Candidate (Strategy and Organization) at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. His thesis (in progress) examines the competitive and collaborative organizational field dynamics of private regulatory governance in global industries. Prior to pursuing a PhD, he was a researcher at the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and held various management positions within the IT and aviation industries. Adriane Macdonald A Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of Lethbridge. Her research focus is on multi-organization cross-sector social partnerships designed to implement community sustainability plans. As an instructor, Adriane has taught courses that focus on topics related to environment, business, CSR and strategy. Outside of academia, Adriane has worked as a consultant for a design firm and as a business analyst for the Government of Canada Adriana Reynaga Holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at National University of Mexico (UNAM). She is Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Instituto Tecnolgico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), both in Mexico City. She has focused her research in communication network formation between sectors through different forms of institutional agreements and also in the role that social capital plays to promote cross-sector partnerships. Stella Pfisterer A Research Associate at the Partnerships Resource Centre (PrC), Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University, the Netherlands. She is currently working on her PhD thesis on the governance of cross-sector partnerships in international development cooperation. Next to conducting research, Stella has developed a series of executive training modules on partnership management, commissioned by various organizations, amongst others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Lea Stadtler Currently works as Research Fellow at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her dissertation focused on designing public-private partnerships for development and has received the SIM Best Dissertation Award and the SNIS Thesis Award 2013. In her recent research, Lea explores cross-sector interaction in the light of coopetition, paradox management, and institutional change. Lea also received the 2012 EFMD Case Writing Award and teaches courses on change management and cross-sector partnerships. Lamberto Zollo A second year PhD Student in Management and Business Administration at the University of Florence, Pisa and Siena (Italy) and he has just finished a visiting period at Kent Business School (UK). His research interests are in management, strategy, CSR, business ethics and cross-sector social partnerships in the healthcare field. Outside of academia, he currently works as an intern at a certified public accountant studio in Florence.

former Secretary-General of the United Nations, US.

Executive Director and Founder, MTV Staying Alive Foundation, UK.

Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School, US.

Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria, UK.

Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School, US.

Founder and Executive Director, Accenture Development Partnerships, Switzerland.

George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada.

Deputy Director, Private Fundraising & Partnerships, UNICEF, Switzerland

Honorary Professor at Maastricht University and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies, Policy, and Management at the Utrecht University and the Dutch Open Universiteit, the Netherlands

Director, Civic Innovation at Civic Consulting USA , US.

Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University , US

Professor, Executive Director of the Applied Sustainability Center, University of Arkansasg>, US.

Professor,University of Amsterdam Business School, the Netherlands.

Independent Consultant, exco2, Canada.

Senior Fellow and Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, US.

Professor of Public Management and Policy, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,New York University, US

Head of the Centre for the Global Agenda, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum, Switzerland.

Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Switzerland.

Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Kent Business School, UK.

Research Fellow,University of Geneva , Switzerland.

Executive Director, The Partnering Initiative, UK.

Partnership Specialist, Author, Trainer, Mentor, Founder / Development Director - Partnership Brokers Association, UK

Professor of Organizational Theory and Business Ethics, Pontifical University Catholic of Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Former Deputy Director and Senior Research Associate, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Switzerland.

Principal of NetworkingAction, Founder of the GOLDEN Ecosystems Labs, founding Executive Director of Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net) and Leadership for Change, Boston College, US.

Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College , US.

Professor of Technology and Operations Management, The Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing INSEAD , and Director, INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group, France.

JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo and Leader of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, Canada.