The Consortia Century Aligning for Impact

Today's societal challenges are at a scale and complexity that cannot be fully addressed by any single organization or institutional actor. Progress requires forums and initiatives with representation from a wide range of relevant stakeholders.
The Consortia Century makes the bold prediction that consortia, spanning diverse stakeholders, will be the defining institutional arrangement of the 21st Century. Consortia are not new, but will grow in importance as social, political, economic, environmental, and technological challenges increase. The book presents supporting case examples and provides a model for achieving sufficient stakeholder alignment for collective action - enabling interdependent individuals, groups, and organizations to accomplish together what they cannot do separately.
With this book, The Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative provides both the conceptual underpinnings for lateral alignment across stakeholders and practical guidance to advance into what will be needed for 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, Alysia Garmulewicz, 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