Utilizing Collaboration Theory to Evaluate Strategic Alliances

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12470611
AutoresRebecca Gajda (The University of Vermont, 409C Waterman Building, 85 S. Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05405-0160, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas65-77
Fecha de publicación2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/109821400402500105
OpenAlexW2128310207
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas59
Referencias citadas7

Increasingly, collaboration between business, non-profit, health and educational agencies is being championed as a powerful strategy to achieve a vision otherwise not possible when independent entities work alone. But the definition of collaboration is elusive and it is often difficult for organizations to put collaboration into practice and assess it with certainty. Program evaluators can assist practitioners concerned with the development of a strategic alliance predicated on collaboration by understanding and utilizing principles of collaboration theory. The Strategic Alliance Formative Assessment Rubric (SAFAR) is an assessment tool that captures central principles of collaboration and has been used as part of a four-step evaluation process to help alliance leaders, managers, and members in Safe School/Healthy Student Initiatives to quantitatively and qualitatively gauge, celebrate, and communicate the relative strength of their collaborative endeavor over time. The collaboration principles and corresponding assessment processes described in this article can be used by evaluators of large- or small-scale initiatives that seek to capitalize on the synergistic power of the “collaborative effort.”

Alliance · Business · Formative assessment · Knowledge management · Management science · Pedagogy · Political science · Process (computing · Process management · Public relations · Rubric · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Organizational Learning and Leadership · Team Dynamics and Performance