“…In the literature, different classifications of cooperation partners which might be useful in order to understand the nature of relationships have been developed (Clarkson, ; Holtbruegge and Berg, ; Mitchell et al ., ; Rowley and Moldoveanu, ). In this paper, we differentiate between business, government and civil society partners, which is common in the literature of cross‐sector cooperation (Anheier and Seibel, ; Gidron et al ., ; Selsky and Parker, ; Sinh, ). We choose this classification because each of these categories brings different, but potentially complementary, skills, experiences, resources and knowledge into a partnership (Bryson et al .…”