What aspects of leadership contribute to the effective decision-making processes in multi-sector initiatives? What are organizational factors that result is making decisions to collaborate among organizations (for profits and/or or non-profits)?
How do processes for decision-making within organizations impact collaborative decision-making across sectors?
How does organizational culture influence multi-sector decision-making?
How does policy context (organizational or governmental) influence multi-sector decision-making?
What are key strategies for the design of effective multi-sector decision-making?
Potential Topics and Areas of Research: To fulfill the purpose of the special issue and answer the outlined questions, the topics of potential contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following subject areas:
Integrative leadership and collaborative decision-making.
Intra and interorganizational policy and structures for collective decision-making.
Participants in collective decision-making
Internal and external marketing & communication for collective decision-making.
Interorganizational conflict/conflict management in the decision-making process.
Collective impact/action
Collective strategic decision-making
Complexity theory and decision-making
Macro-systems theory
Submissions: Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished research or conceptual papers that provide frameworks for understanding multi-sector collaboration decision-making. Authors may use micro, macro or combination of organizational behavior perspectives. Research papers may employ a wide variety of methodologies and analyses including qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approaches.
To be considered for publication in this special issue, manuscripts must be received by June 30, 2015.
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