Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
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DOI：
10.1007/s10551-018-3858-6
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Schouten, Greetje
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作者：
Dentoni, Domenico;Bitzer, Verena;Schouten, Greetje
尽管过去二十年来关于跨部门伙伴关系的治理和影响的文献如雨后春笋般涌现，但关于这些合作安排如何以及何时处理与全球相关的问题并促进系统变革的辩论仍然悬而未决。基于有害问题的概念和治理此类有害问题的文献，本文将多利益相关者伙伴关系(MSP)中的治理问题定义为考虑问题的性质并相应地组织治理过程的方法。本文发展了一个创新的分析框架，从三个治理过程(审议、决策和执行)的角度对MSP进行概念化，利用邪恶问题的三个关键维度(知识不确定性、价值冲突和动态复杂性)。可持续棕榈油圆桌会议提供了一个说明性案例研究，说明这一分析框架如何从基于问题的角度描述和解释伙伴关系中的组织变化。该框架可用于更好地理解和预测中期战略计划治理进程、系统变革和社会问题之间的复杂关系，也可用作(重新)组织治理进程的指导工具，以便随着时间的推移不断重新评估问题并解决这些问题。
Despite the burgeoning literature on the governance and impact of cross-sector partnerships in the past two decades, the debate on how and when these collaborative arrangements address globally relevant problems and contribute to systemic change remains open. Building upon the notion of wicked problems and the literature on governing such wicked problems, this paper defines harnessing problems in multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) as the approach of taking into account the nature of the problem and of organizing governance processes accordingly. The paper develops an innovative analytical framework that conceptualizes MSPs in terms of three governance processes (deliberation, decision-making and enforcement) harnessing three key dimensions of wicked problems (knowledge uncertainty, value conflict and dynamic complexity). The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil provides an illustrative case study on how this analytical framework describes and explains organizational change in partnerships from a problem-based perspective. The framework can be used to better understand and predict the complex relationships between MSP governance processes, systemic change and societal problems, but also as a guiding tool in (re-)organizing governance processes to continuously re-assess the problems over time and address them accordingly.