The Consortia Century

The Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative is a multi-disciplinary group of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners that has been advancing theory, policy, and practice at the institutional level of analysis for nearly a decade. It was founded in 2015 and has since expanded in membership and reach, with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Since its inception, the Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative has published findings in Data Science Journal, Nature, Negotiation Journal, Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and other journals. The Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative advances theory, policy, and practice so that research enterprises and related parties can accomplish together what they cannot do separately in addressing the world's most pressing problems.Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Ken Anderson, Karen S. Baker, Nicholas Berente, Helen M. Berman, Alan R. Blatecky, Christine L. Borgman, Patrick Canavan, Bobby Clark, Yaminette Diaz-Linhart, AlysiaGarmulewicz, Alyson Gounden Rock, Michael Haberman, Phyllis D.K. Hildreth, Ron Hutchins, John Leslie King, Christine R. Kirkpatrick, John C. Klensin, Kimberlyn Rachael Leary, Spencer Lewis, W. Christopher Lenhardt, Michael Maffie, Lauren A. Michael, Barbara B. Mittleman, Rajesh Sampath, Sarah Soroui, Namchul Shin, Miya Ward, Susan J. Winter, and Kimberly E. Zarecor

The Consortia Century breaks new theoretical ground by going beyond standard individual or organizational levels of analyses to make a strong case for building and sustaining multi-party institutions capable of tackling the major challenges of the 21st Century. The authors then provide well-researched and tested roadmaps for guiding the next generation of institutional entrepreneurs in leading and governing these consortia. Bravo to this creative consortium of authors." Thomas A. Kochan, Professor Emeritus, Sloan School of Management and Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT

• ProloguePart I: Consortia Chapter 1: Global Challenges in a Digital EraChapter 2: A Gathering of DestiniesChapter 3: Barriers to Collective ActionChapter 4: Agile and Adaptive Consortia Part II: Aligning StakeholdersChapter 5: Managing and Engaging (but not aligning) StakeholdersChapter 6: Scoping - Specifying Stakeholders and Identifying InterestsChapter 7: Structuring - Forging a Shared Vision, Drafting a Charter, and Agreeing on MetricsChapter 8: Sustaining - Delivering Results, Adjusting, and Adapting Part III: Looking ForwardChapter 9: Storm Clouds on the HorizonChapter 10: A Vision of Consortia for a Complex World EpilogueGlossaryIndex