TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Partnerships with business involvement became a key trend in development cooperation since the late 1980s. Partnerships emerged as promising governance mechanism; however, governing partnerships in practice remained challenging – promise and reality seem to diverge. This chapter scrutinizes the tension between the promises of partnerships as governance arrangements and their actual governance challenges. It disentangles the complexity of governing partnerships by developing a framework based on a continuum between efficiency- and participation-orientation. This chapter identifies partnering approaches and their governance orientations based on an extensive review of literature in diverse academic fields and grey literature on the emergence and evolution of partnerships in development cooperation since the 1980s. Examples from the Dutch development cooperation provide illustrations for each partnership approach. Efficiency- and participation-orientation highlight competing governance rationales, logics and partnership characteristics. Partnership approaches that aim to embrace both perspectives have to deal with the inherent governance paradox between control and collaboration. This chapter identifies three key implications for research and practice: exploring new governance approaches and practices, adapting development agencies towards partnering and coordinating partnership approaches at international level. Understanding the tension between the promises of partnerships as governance arrangements and their actual governance challenges does not only contribute to more nuanced conceptualizations of partnering approaches for development but has also implications on how to govern partnerships for development in practice.
SN  - 978-1-78714-494-1, 978-1-78714-493-4/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78714-493-420171005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-493-420171005
AU  - Pfisterer Stella
ED  - João Leitão
ED  - Elsa de Morais Sarmento
ED  - João Aleluia
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Public–Private Partnership for Development: Governance Promises and Tensions
T2  - The Emerald Handbook of Public–Private Partnerships in Developing and Emerging Economies
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 141
EP  - 164
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -