This study aims to investigate how key personnel in a government agency integrate cross-sectorial issues into their activities. The survey shows that it is possible to understand the work as a pedagogical practice. However, this approach is based on another conceptual tradition of learning than the general one. Cross-sectorial commissions do not seem to lead to the integration of different issues. It is rather the agency’s and the employees' approach to the assignment and the cross-sectorial practice that is crucial. A socio-cultural perspective on learning can help the authority consider the cross-sectorial community of practice to be an asset, thus utilising learning within them in a more strategic and systematic way. The survey also helps to understand negotiation of meaning as a way to integrate practices. The study has a deductive approach and is based on a socio-cultural perspective on learning to contribute to the understanding of the implementation as pedagogical practices. The survey includes one government agency that works with two different cross-sectorial commissions. The work of each government commission has been investigated through interviews with key persons within the agency. The phenomenological point of departure has also influenced the compilation, interpretation and thematic analysis of the results of the survey. / Studien syftar till att undersöka hur nyckelpersoner i en statlig myndighet arbetar med tvärsektoriella uppdrag för att integrera tvärsektoriella frågor i verksamheten. Undersökningen visar att det är möjligt att förstå arbetet som en pedagogisk praktik, men att detta synsätt utgår från en annan idétradition om lärande än den allmänt förekommande. Uppdragen i sig verkar inte leda till att olika sakfrågeperspektiv överbryggas. Det är istället myndigheten och dess medarbetares förhållningssätt till uppdraget och den tvärsektoriella praktiken som är avgörande. Ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande kan bidra till att myndigheten betraktar den tvärsektoriella praktikgemenskapen som en tillgång och tillvaratar lärandet som sker där på ett mer strategiskt och systematiskt sätt. Undersökningen bidrar också till att förstå meningsskapande som ett sätt att integrera olika praktiker. Studien har en deduktiv ansats och undersökningen görs utifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande för att bidra till förståelsen om uppdragens genomförande som pedagogiska praktiker. Undersökningen omfattar en statlig myndighet som arbetar med två olika tvärsektoriella regeringsuppdrag. Arbetet med respektive regeringsuppdrag har undersökts genom forskningsintervjuer med nyckelpersoner inom myndigheten. Den fenomenologiska utgångspunkten har även påverkat sammanställning, tolkning och tematiska analys av undersökningens resultat.

Collaborative relationships between business and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), is offering innovative business practices, as a new and emerging concept. The potential of this phenomenon to offer market-orientated solutions to the social and developmental challenges confronting us globally is imminent. The significance of this concept for businesses in post-conflict settings in Africa is particularly relevant for Africa as the next growth market. Critically examining this evolving concept, this study looks at the perceptions and nature of collaborative relationships between business and NGOs in post-conflict settings, the contributory and inhibiting factors, as well as its characteristics towards closing the gap in knowledge.Twenty leaders of businesses and NGOs in Burundi, Sierra Leone and Liberia, involved in collaborative relationships, were interviewed. The concept was scrutinized in a qualitative study, using in-depth interviewing with qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The methodology allowed innovative practices of collaborative relationships in post-conflict countries to be reflected on.The findings related to the embryonic and evolving nature of collaborative relationships between businesses and NGOs in post-conflict countries reflect a model of innovative cases for enhancing business processes. The model of Business Process Enhancement (BPE) is conceptualised from the results of this study. Concomitantly, the study presents new insights into the strategic potential of collaborative relationships and offers both business and NGOs in post-conflict countries a framework of the benefits, and the contributory and inhibiting factors. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Många av våra samtida städer står inför en ökad urbanisering vilket kan leda till störrepåfrestningar och nya utmaningar för stadsplaneringen att handskas med. Smarta städer harkommit som en reaktion på den ökade komplexitet städerna står inför i samband med attfler människor kommer konkurrera om samma ytor. En av dessa komplexiteter är hurmobiliteten i städerna ska förbättras utan att äventyra andra värden. Idag sker det enintensiv utveckling av autonoma fordon vilket många tror kan vara en lösning påmobilitetsproblematiken. En identifierad problematik är den stora ovissheten, som härrörfrån de bristande erfarenheterna kring autonoma fordons effekter i staden. Denna ovisshetskapar behovet av en tvärsektoriell samverkan mellan kommunal planering ochteknikutvecklingsföretag för att åstadkomma en mer omfattande kunskapsbild.En fallstudie har genomförts i Göteborg där representanter från den kommunalaplaneringen, det privata näringslivet och konsultföretag har intervjuats. Observationsstudierhar genomförts för att få en uppfattning av hur kunskapsbildningsprocessen ser ut mellanden offentliga och privata sektorn. Detta för att få en bild av vilka utmaningar ochmöjligheter de olika aktörerna ser med en implementering av autonoma fordon i stadenslångsiktiga planering. Resultaten som har kommit fram i denna fallstudie pekar på problemsom kan uppstå när avgränsningen i ett kunskapsgenererande projekt leder till ettkunskapsbortfall. Undersökningen identifierar även den problematik som kan uppstå närolika fackspråk möts för att tillsammans generera en gemensam kunskapsbild. / Many of our contemporary cities face increased urbanization, which can lead to greaterstrains and new challenges for urban planning to deal with. Smart cities are a reaction tothe increased complexity that cities face, as more people will have to compete for the samespace. One of these complexities is how urban mobility should be improved withoutcompromising other values. Today there is an extensive development of autonomousvehicles, which many believe may be a solution to mobility issues. An identified problem isthe great uncertainty, that derives from the lack of experience regarding autonomousvehicle effects in the city. This uncertainty creates a need for cross-sectorial collaborationbetween municipal planning and technology developing companies in order to achieve amore comprehensive knowledge base.A case study has been conducted in Gothenburg where representatives from municipalplanning, private industry, and a consulting company have been interviewed. Observationshave been conducted to gain an understanding of how the knowledge-making processlooks like between the public and private sector, this to get a picture of the challenges andopportunities that the various actors identify in relations to the implementation ofautonomous vehicles in the city's long-term planning. The results that have emerged in thiscase study points to problems that may arise when the delimitation of a knowledgegeneratingproject leads to a loss of knowledge. The study also identifies issues that mayarise when different technical languages meet to mutually generate a comprehensiveknowledge base.

Recently in the Czech Republic, more attention has been focused on the social responsibility of companies. Companies become members of professional platforms, in which they gain and deepen their knowledge. The vital part of CSR is cooperation within the civil sector. The goal of this thesis is to focus on this cooperation within the Czech environment. For my own research I have been using the typology of the authors Wymer and Samu, who look at different ways of management and the benefits gained from different types of cooperation. I compare and find differences in this typology through analysis of documents and questionnaires of companies active in professional platforms. The cooperation established between companies and NGOs is different in the case of agreements on the use of the logo and the name of non-profit organizations, sponsorship, joint issue promotion and corporate philanthropy, both greater involvements of the non-profit sector, and given benefits.

Synopsis The diploma thesis is focused on cross-sectorial cooperation between corporations and nonprofit organizations. The main goal of the thesis is to find the factors, which influence cross-sectorial cooperation. Furthermore, the aim is to determine typology and foundations of cross-sectorial cooperation and how this cooperation is presented in public within the Czech Republic. Several theories dealing with types of cross-sectorial cooperation and the theory that characterizes basic factors that influence cross-sectorial cooperation are introduced and compared in the theoretical part of this thesis. Research part presents conclusions and findings based on qualitative research, conducted in both corporations and nonprofit organizations. The results and the goals of the thesis are summarized in the conclusion of this thesis.

SYNOPSIS The diploma thesis deals with social capital of Civil Society Organizations, which is introduced here as a strategy for achieving the objectives and mission of Civil Society Organizations through networking and building relations with key players in their surroundings. Through the example of Civil Society Organizations providing services in Tábor the diploma thesis provides insight into the problematic of creation and maintenance of interorganizational relations with stakeholders across all sectors and therefore building external social capital of organizations. The theories of social capital and interorganizational relations with regard to the specifications of Civil Society Organizations are presented in the theoretical part of this thesis. The research part presents findings based on qualitative research, which was conducted through semi-structured interviews with representatives of Civil Society Organizations. The findings and results are and summarized in the conclusion.