Building Organizational Partnerships - 4 credits

Partnerships can exist between individuals, across units within an organization, or among organizations, sometimes including very different types of organizations. Partnerships extend the capability of organizations and help to leverage available resources. Strategic partnerships also provide an alternative to vertical integration and provide a way to complement the organization’s core competencies. In this course students define and discuss the roles of various types of organizational partnerships, community collaboration including internal and external, strategic partnerships, and joint ventures. Students also explore strategies for ethically leading and successfully managing these external and internal organizational relationships.