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The Purpose (and Perils) of Government-Nonprofit Partnership

Gazley, Beth, Brudney, Jeffrey L.·2007·Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
DOI 10.1177/0899764006295997
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This study seeks to understand similarities and differences in why local governments and nonprofits choose to collaborate, particularly when those relationships are not governed by formal contracts or grants. Exchange, transaction, and resource dependence theories are used to understand the perceived advantages and disadvantages of collaboration as expressed by local government and nonprofit executives. Based on two large, comparable samples from Georgia, the analysis finds that the two sectors demonstrate a remarkable similarity in the benefits they seek from public-private partnerships, but with some key differences. The motivation to partner is driven by a desire to secure those resources most scarce for the respective sector: expertise and capacity for government, funding for nonprofits. Nonprofit executives generally exhibit a stronger undercurrent of negativity toward intersectoral partnership than do their public sector counterparts. This article discusses possible reasons for these similarities and differences and contributes to the scholarship linking capacity with organizational outcomes.

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Authors
Gazley, B., & Brudney, J. L.
Venue
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2007-09
Volume
36
Issue
3
Pages
389-415
ISSN
  • 0094-0607 (ISSN-L)
  • 0899-7640
  • 1552-7395
DOI
10.1177/0899764006295997
OpenAlex
W1982461302
Cited by
477
References
45
FWCI
36.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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