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Challenges of Partnerships & Networks

Explore strategies for managing interdependence, building strong relationships, and creating collaborative management structures in global sustainable tourism alliances. Learn how to activate, mobilize, synthesize, and stabilize network management phases effectively.

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Challenges of Partnerships & Networks

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  1. Challenges of Partnerships & Networks ‘The Real Guide’ Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance Retreat Darcy Ashman, AED, 18 Oct. 2007

  2. 1. Interdependence • Organizations prefer autonomy, but choose to work together to achieve common goals • Continuum of interdependence, from low to high levels of change to organizational autonomy • Depend on good relationships among parties • Manage interdependence through appropriate structures for coordinating joint decision-making

  3. 2. Building Relationships • Good relationships = ‘social capital’ • Take time to build; ‘virtuous cycles’ • Performance pressures Strategies: • Build on pre-existing relationships • Collective planning, decision-making • Transparency, open communication • Joint review and adjustment

  4. Collaborative Management Structures: the ‘Hub’ • Create new structures • Build lateral relationships within a hierarchy • Tend to be under-financed • Learn new ways of managing Strategies • Keep the ‘hub’ as lean & flexible as possible • Managers must direct throughcoordination • Prioritize participation, communication, transparency, sharing benefits

  5. Phases of Network Management(McGuire, 2002) • Activate:identify & incorporate the persons & resources needed to achieve program goals • Mobilize: develop commitment & support for network processes from members • Synthesize & Stabilize:enhance conditions for productive interaction by facilitating interaction & linkages; reducing complexity & uncertainty by promoting information exchange

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