ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces two key conceptualizations of service learning partnership at the organizational level: interorganizational relationships, and partnership entities. It reviews several aspects of interorganizational relationships and partnership entity research to demonstrate how the scholarship and practice of service learning partnerships may be enhanced by adopting approaches from other fields—the field of management and organization in particular. The study of relationships between organizations is increasingly common in the literature on industry as well as in the literature on the areas of management and organization, strategy, and international business. Organizational learning is important in partnerships between organizations because it not only enhances the ability of partners to manage the project effectively and to accomplish shared goals but also helps to “equalize power differences associated with expert knowledge”.
