Theory of Organizational Partnerships: partnership advantages, disadvantages and success factors

Abstract

First paragraph: Promoting ‘partnership' and greater inter-agency co-operation between government departments, public agencies, private companies and the third sector has become a staple of strategies to promote social and labour market inclusion at national and supra-national levels, for instance internationally (CEC, 2003, 2001: 6; OECD, 2008) and the UK (DWP, 2006). Area-based strategies to tackle social and labour market exclusion have particularly used of partnership approaches involving different organisations and forms of relationship - for the UK government, ‘renewal relies on local communities', and non-public bodies have a leading role to play in promoting employability, regeneration and inclusion (SEU, 2001; McQuaid and Lindsay, 2005; McQuaid et al., 2007).