Collaborative Advantage

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Question 1: Collaborative advantage is the collaboration between several entities in a good way of achieving goals and objectives and where the organizations are getting together to provide co-ordinated service. So the collaboration is valuable. For example, the PPP is one of an indicative term of the inter-organizational arrangement that exists. (n,d) The main reasons for the collaborative advantage are: access to resource, shared risk, efficiency, learning, cooperation and seamlessness and the moral imperative. Access to resource occurred when the organizations collaborate if they are unable to achieve their objectives in their own resources. Sometimes this simply means pooling financial or human resources but more often it implies the bringing …show more content…

But in other cases learning from a partner organization may be an undeclared strategic reason for the company to form an alliance or joint venture, so reducing the need for it to form access to resource alliances in the long run. Finally the moral imperative that some would argue that it is the most important reason for being concerned with collaboration. This rests on the belief that the really important issues facing society like health sector, poverty, crime, conflict and so on cannot be tackled by an organization acting alone. Moreover in many cases the collaborative advantage was not the always outcome of such collaboration because to make the collaboration valuable the PPP and PPC should be built through clear contracts that will include defined goals, clear division of responsibilities, risk allocation and other transaction elements and in some cases the roles and responsibility of the partners, based on transparent discussions and assess costs and benefits. Through the contracting process all the parties of PPP will bring the experience, expertise and performance to others. (Nikolic.I & Maikisch.H, …show more content…

Through ownership internal the collaboration are endorsed by individuals. These individuals are linked through collaboration between various organizations. Collaboration, organization and individual aims relate directly to the aspirations of the members of collaboration. (n,d) Collaboration aims are related to the joint activity and purpose of the collaboration partners. They relate to the inter-organizational domain and are the achievement of individuals or organizations acting alone. The organization hopes to gain for itself from participating and seek to achieve for them and tend to be aligned with their functions, responsibilities and activity. While the individual aims is related to the aspirations of the individual involved. Unlike the organization aims, individual aims do not account for an individual’s involvement in the collaboration so the individuals are to be authorized to a role in the collaboration by superiors. (n,d) The ownership external in this case is related to the first the external collaboration aims which is mostly related to the government policy. For example when the private sector pay a fee to the public partner to manage and operate a public facility in exchange for revenues from the facility’s operation and by adjusting the regulatory

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