Intersectoral Collaborative Arrangements: Effective Vehicles for Societal Problem Solving?

Convenors:  Prof. Pieter Glasbergen and Mariette van Huijstee

Session One - 9:00am to 10:30am

Introduction by Pieter Glasbergen

• How Bank-NGO Interactions Induce Corporate Social Responsibility
  Mariette van Huijstee, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Successful Partnership Functioning and the Role of Synergy – Critical elements of Intersectoral Collaborative Arrangements
  Jacky Jones, Functional Manager Health Promotion, HSE West, West City Centre, Galway, Ireland
• Trisector Collaboration, Responsibility and Public Tasks
  Tobias Gößling, Organisation Studies, Tilburg university, The Netherlands

Session Two - 11:00am to 12:30pm

• Learning about Organizing for Intersectoral Collaborative Arrangements in Managing Disasters
  Latha Poonamallee, Michigan Technological University
  Anita Howard, Case Western Reserve University
• Intersectoral Collaboration: a mechanism to improve the quality and scale of health research and to achieve the strategic objectives of research funders
  Jane Cooke-Lauder, Case Western Reserve University
• Characteristics of School-Firm Partnerships in Public Education
  Elisabeth Muhlenberg, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Is it a Partnership? A Case Study in Central America
  Meredith Myers & Sandy Kristin Piderit, Case Western Reserve University

Session Three - 1:30pm to 3:00pm

• The Role of Collaboration in Enhancing Public Acceptances of Public Private Partnerships: A Tale of Two Tunnels
  Hui J Thia, Central Queensland University, Australia
  Donald G. Ross, MacQuarie University, Australia
• Understanding Multi-level, Multi-Actor Governance Arrangements in Human Services: Time for a More Nuanced Approach
  Dr Robyn Keast, Dr Jennifer Waterhouse and Prof Kerry Brown
  Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Global Action Networks - Creating Collaborative Change in New Political Spaces
  Pieter Glasbergen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Closing by Conveners