Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships

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