@article {MacDonald20181,
	title = {Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainability: Designing Decision-Making Processes for Partnership Capacity},
	journal = {Journal of Business Ethics},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-18},
	publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
	abstract = {To address the prevalence and complexities of sustainable development challenges around the world, organizations in the business, government, and non-profit sectors are increasingly collaborating via multi-stakeholder partnerships. Because complex problems can be neither understood nor addressed by a single organization, it is necessary to bring together the knowledge and resources of many stakeholders. Yet, how these partnerships coordinate their collaborative activities to achieve mutual and organization-specific goals is not well understood. This study takes an organization design perspective of collaborative decision-making processes to explore how they impact the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder partnerships. We compare the decision-making processes of 94 sustainability-focused multi-stakeholder partnerships and find that collaborative decision-making has an indirect and positive impact on partnership capacity through systems that keep partners informed, coordinate partner interactions, and facilitate ongoing learning. The implications of this study for multi-stakeholder partnership research and practice are that partnership capacity is contingent on the design of decision-making processes, as well as internal mechanisms that coordinate and monitor collaborative activities. {\textcopyright} 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature},
	issn = {01674544},
	doi = {10.1007/s10551-018-3885-3},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10551-018-3885-3?author_access_token=Mq_tt3cvfJ6n5Sp1_ycm0fe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6QT35qglC3emnq843HCOlcnAMJEvxSOJMdZgEo6LTCebWy_ZVe6Ffroa7I7ENukNjFRhNJGNSQvdaRd9PElkqsubYIBf2mFDpdAJXVEWZAxg\%3D\%3D },
	author = {MacDonald, A. and Clarke, A. and Huang, L.}
}
