@inbook {17592,
	title = {Implementing Community Sustainability Strategies through Cross-Sector Partnerships: Value Creation for and by Businesses},
	booktitle = {Business Strategies for Sustainability: A Research Anthology},
	year = {2019},
	note = {<a href="http://As social and ecological problems escalate, involving stakeholder groups in helping solve these issues becomes critical for reaching solutions. The UN Sustainable Development Goal $\#$17 recognizes the importance of partnerships and collaborative governance. However, organizing large multi-stakeholder groups (or partnerships) requires sophisticated implementation structures for ensuring collaborative action. Understanding the relationship between implementation structures and the outcomes is central to designing successful partnerships for sustainability. In the context of sustainable community plan implementation, the larger research project of which the results presented in this book chapter are one part of, examines how stakeholders configure to achieve results. To date, we have the data from a survey completed by 111 local governments around the world. The survey was offered in English, French, Spanish, and Korean. Seventeen integrated environmental, social, and economic topics are considered, including climate change, waste, ecological diversity, and local economy. Despite the prevalence of sustainable community plan implementation in local authorities around the world, there is scant empirical data on the topics covered in these plans internationally, the partners involved in implementation, and the costs and savings to the local governments that implement in partnership with their communities. The results presented in this book chapter show that sustainable community plans continue to be created and implemented in a diversity of communities around the world, are integrated in the sustainability topics that they cover, involve local organizations as partners in implementation, act as motivators of resource investment by the local government in community sustainability, and result in savings for the local government.">Pre-Publication Version</a>},
	pages = {402 - 416},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	abstract = {Sustainability challenges can be addressed through cross-sector partnerships between different organizations. Local governments are partnering with various stakeholders to formulate and implement community sustainability plans, with businesses playing an active role. By engaging at the community level, actual sustainability progress can be measured and working within ecosystem boundaries can be achieved for some topics. Businesses engage in these partnerships for reasons that go beyond the desire to help the community achieve sustainability goals. They aim to learn, network, improve their reputation and legitimacy, improve relations with the community, market their products and services, and improve their financial performance. This paper provides background on community sustainability plans and cross-sector social partnerships for enabling community-wide actions; and details the roles businesses play in helping achieve the community-wide sustainability vision. The main contribution is identifying the value created by and for businesses through engaging in community sustainability strategies.},
	url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429458859/chapters/10.4324/9780429458859-23},
	author = {Clarke, A. and MacDonald, A. and Ordonez-Ponce, E.}
}
