Partnership

This dissertation, using the case of the historical establishment of the American Sociological Association archives, argues that a lack of collaboration across institutions and among people contributed to difficulties in establishing the significance of the ASA archives as a soc…

Sixty million Hispanics are currently living in the United States of America. Latinos from most Spanish-speaking countries arrive daily in the U.S. Decades ago, Manuel Ortiz wrote a significant book titled, The Hispanic Challenge, Opportunities Confronting the Church, to refer s…

There is a growing desire by Bangladeshi National Churches (BNCs) to see indigenouschurch-planting movements multiply. This growing desire has motivated some localchurches to multiply their churches through facilitative partnerships with missionalchurches or organizations. Howev…

Jesus instructed his followers to make love their trademark, just as it was his (John 13:34-35). Jesus also prayed that his followers’ unusual unity would corroborate he was sent to earth by God on mission to deliver the message of God’s remarkable love for all (kinds of) people…

Many churches are now directly engaging in global ministry by fostering a long-term partnering relationship with a congregation in a different part of the world. These international congregational partnerships (ICPs) have many different names (partnerships, parish twinning, sist…

Partnerships for management of public parks have a long history, but little attention has been given to the current models of partnerships during a period of municipal austerity in Ontario. Using a qualitative assessment of transcripts from representatives of 10 municipal partne…

Set against a background of technological change, national bargaining and union merger, this thesis considers the impact of a changing structural, economic and political climate on the resilience of national pay bargaining within general print, a little documented but important …

Church planters need to consider the implications of dedicated space. When building a foundation for the church, a church planter must consider the theological baselines he sets through practical application. The theological baselines must be discerned through historical, biblic…

This submission for the award of PhD by Published Work includes a range of single, joint and multiple-authored publications that were published between 2005 and 2016. The publications cover a range of issues relevant to social work with a particular emphasis on mental health and…

This thesis proposes two distinct but connected ideas: that John Keats’s idiom of friendship was haunted by “sequestered” longings and that he ultimately valued specific, one-on-one partnerships as a basis for his poetical character. The Introduction places the thesis within its…

This research is based on an agreed definition approved by the European Social Marketing Association (ESMA), Australian Association of Social Marketing (AASM), and the International Social Marketing Association (ISMA). It acknowledges that the creation of effective partnerships …

This thesis makes a productive contribution to understanding the rapidly expanding and contested field of global school partnerships, by placing the rich narratives from a handful of school partnerships into the global education context of social, historical, political, and cult…

The concept of participation seems to reflect in most development programmes that involve people at the grassroots level. In Ghana, the introduction of the decentralization programme in the late 1980s that aimed at promoting effective, comprehensive and rapid development, more e…

Though faith-based organizations provide a unique opportunity for rural public schools to share responsibility for student success among community stakeholders, partnerships between public schools and churches in the twenty-first century are complex. In part due to this complexi…

Short-term missions [STM] has exploded in popularity in the past half-century. An estimated 1.6 million Americans participate in STM annually. Traditional Christian missionaries serve for a career or a lifetime. In contrast, STM volunteers travel (often to a different country) f…

This study examines the impact of the partnership synergy and inter-organizational cooperation between government (federal, state, local), public agencies, private companies and local on successful communities commercialization of renewable energy (RE) technologies. The study pr…

In June 2006, the Government of Indonesia introduced a new agricultural extension approach called Participatory Extension. It has been eight years since the policy was introduced and long enough to determine how well the policy is working. Therefore, this study assessed the effe…

This dissertation departs from the usual analysis of the Baghdad Railway as a symbol of German imperialism. Revisiting the railway's construction sites on the Ottoman frontier, it chronicles the important Ottoman contribution to the enterprise and explores the dynamics of the Tu…

This thesis is a historical study of a commercial partnership between two families of Sephardic Jews, the Ergas and the Silvera, which was based in Livorno (Tuscany) and Aleppo (Syria) and operated during the first half of the eighteenth century, when Livorno was the most import…