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Making the Most of Collaboration: Exploring the Relationship Between Partnership Synergy and Partnership Functioning

Division of Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, New Yorkeweiss{at}nyam.org

Rebecca Miller Anderson, MPH

Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

Roz D. Lasker, MD

Division of Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York

Considering the challenges inherent to collaboration and the time it takes to achieve measurable outcomes, partnerships need a way to determine, at an early stage, whether they are making the most of collaboration. The authors have developed a new measure, partnership synergy, which assesses the degree to which a partnership’s collaborative process successfully combines its participants’ perspectives, knowledge, and skills. This article reports the results of a national study designed to examine the relationship between partnership synergy and six dimensions of partnership functioning: leadership, administration and management, partnership efficiency, nonfinancial resources, partner involvement challenges, and community-related challenges. Data were collected from 815 informants in 63 partnerships. Results of regression analysis conducted with partnership-level data indicated that partnership synergy was most closely related to leadership effectiveness and partnership efficiency. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 6, 683-698 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/109019802237938


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