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Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships

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Despite the acknowledged importance of the meanings that people attach to places (e.g., homes, businesses, communities), the literature on cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) provides few insights into how place influences CSPs and how CSPs influence the places where they are enacted. To address this oversight, we explore the role of place using an inductive comparative study of nine CSPs, split across five rural cooperative enterprises and four urban social enterprises that have a common private-sector partner. We inductively derive a process model of place renewal that occurs through CSP growth, and changes the meanings that individuals give to their places. We utilize Penrose’s theory of firm growth to explain how rural CSPs grew in different ways than urban CSPs, and the changed meanings of place that emerged. Both rural and urban CSPs overcome initial perceived restrictions of place through a process of realizing the potential for change, reconfiguring the organization through physical and process changes, and ultimately experiencing renewal that changes how they view their places. Our study contributes to the CSP literature by acknowledging the role of place in theorizing on CSPs, and by including the agency and voice of traditionally marginalized actors in the CSP process. It also contributes to the theory of firm growth by explicitly incorporating place as an outcome of the organizational growth process.

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  • 03 April 2023

    The original version of this article was revised: In this article the affiliation details for Authors Todd W. Moss and Suho Han were incorrect. The original article has been corrected.

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    A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05403-2

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and feedback from the guest editorial team and anonymous reviewers. They thank Fabian Díaz Parada for his valuable support in the data collection process. They also acknowledge with thanks the financial support of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and IPADE Business School.

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  1. Department of Social and Political Environment, IPADE Business School, Floresta 20, Colonia Clavería, Azcapotzalco, 02080, Mexico City, Mexico

    Ana Cristina Dahik Loor

  2. Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 721 University Avenue, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA

    Todd W. Moss & Suho Han

  3. Department of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

    Todd W. Moss

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Loor, A.C.D., Moss, T.W. & Han, S. Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships. J Bus Ethics 184, 793–812 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05366-4

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