Partnerships in Employment

The Johnson & Johnson bridge to employment initiative: building sustainable community education partnerships

Purpose – This paper seeks to demonstrate that a specific business/education partnership model – bridge to employment (BTE) – benefits society by re-establishing the critical connection between academic achievement and practical application, i.e. the connection between the world of school and the world of work. Representatives of the corporation engage community stakeholders to identify opportu...

Accountability in Voluntary Partnerships:

Trust in Technology Partnerships

In this chapter the concept and phenomenon of trust with special focus on technology partnership formation is explored. Complementary partnerships are believed to be a key element both in knowledge creation for technological development itself and in leveraging the value of technological knowledge. Knowledge creation is social in nature, and social exchange is a core process in knowledge creati...

Accounting in Partnerships

Dissolving (in)effective partnerships

This paper studies the problem of partnership dissolution in the context of asymmetric information. Past work has shown that ownership share endowments, interdependence of partners’ valuations, and asymmetric control all affect the possibility of efficient dissolution. In this paper, I argue that the effectiveness of the existing partnership in generating value, which has not been studied, is o...