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3rd International Symposium on Cross Sector Social Interactions 24-25 May 2012, University of Erasmus, RotterdamMaking a Difference - Enhancing the Impact of Partnerships for the social good. Following the two previous successful CSSI symposia, the 3rdInternational Symposium on CSSI is moving forward by taking up one of the most important challenges of contemporary partnership research: how to approach the ‘impact’ question. The symposium intends to bring together researchers as well as practitioners from a variety of areas. It expands the programme structure of the previous CSSI symposia by adding an extra day in order to allow for interactive sessions consisting of presentations by scholars, practitioners and PhD students. The symposium will aim to support efforts of institutionalizing this area of research and further contributing to the creation a well-functioning international community of scholars and practitioners.
Occasion and aim of the symposium
Cross sector partnerships are one of the most exciting areas to be engaged in for researchers as well as practitioners since partnerships that bridge different sectors (public, profit, nonprofit) are thriving around the world. Austin (2000) labels these alliances as the collaborative paradigm of the 21stcentury. Cross sector social partnerships are employed as collaborative strategies to address complex social problems as well as to more effectively achieve organisational objectives. Firms, for instance, may search for a longer term competitive advantage through a portfolio of partnerships with non-market actors. Research of The Partnerships Resource Centre (PrC, 2011) shows that the largest firms in the world have on average entered into around 18 cross sector partnerships for a variety of reasons such as market entry, issue resolution, leadership development and HRM, product development. Increasingly, cross sector partnerships are linked to the core business of firms, and away from mere acts of philanthropy.
The 3rd International Symposium on Cross Sector Social Interactions (CSSI) tries to stimulate scholars and practitioners to develop not only knowledge and concepts, but also tools and methods on the impact of partnerships.
Following the two previous successful CSSI symposia, the 3rdInternational Symposium on CSSI is moving forward by taking up one of the most important challenges of contemporary partnership research: how to approach the ‘impact’ question. The symposium intends to bring together researchers as well as practitioners from a variety of areas. It expands the programme structure of the previous CSSI symposia by adding an extra day in order to allow for interactive sessions consisting of presentations by scholars, practitioners and PhD students. The symposium will aim to support efforts of institutionalising this area of research and further contributing to the creation a well-functioning international community of scholars and practitioners.
This website provides more information about the symposium. Just click on the tabs at the left side of the website. The symposium is organized by The Partnerships Resource Centre at RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands In collaboration with University of Hull Business School, University of Hull. 
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