The Map Defines the Territory: Remodelling NGO Partnerships for Knowledge Translation in Transition Contexts

The initial impetus for a theoretical exploration of organisational relationships is based on case study research on a Bulgarian NGO's implementation of values and goals into practices under a guiding relationship from a very experienced UK organisation in the same field. Findings diverged from conventional accounts of developing NGOs' dependence on more developed counterparts and that case study findings characterised the inter- dependency between the two organisations as more alike to a collaborative knowledge ...