Interview Protocol Climate Net (Example)
Block 1: Understanding the informant’s role in the partnership
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• Can you explain your role in this partnership?
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• When did you join the network?
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• What were your motivations for joining?
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• What are your expectations for this partnership?
Block 2: Understanding the partnership’s collaborative nature
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• Can you tell me how it all started?
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• Did the partnership composition change over time?
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• How often do you meet, for how long?
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• Would you say that some network members are more active than others?
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• Do you perceive clear differences in terms of the members’ involve-ment in the process?
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• What is the current status of the partnership?
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Block 3: Understanding the network’s tensions and practices of coping with them
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• How would you evaluate the relationship quality in this partnership?
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• What would you say, generally is the biggest challenge for this partnership?
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• Can you tell me about a situation that you perceived as particularly challenging? What did you do?
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• What were main sources of relationship conflicts faced by the partner-ship? How were they addressed?
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• Did you experience conflicts in the partnership’s goals? How were these dealt with?
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• What would you do to improve collaboration in Climate Net?
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• Is there anything else you want to tell me about the partnership?
Acknowledgments
We thank Business & Society Co-Editor-in-Chief, Colin Higgins and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. We are also grateful for com-ments from Elke Schüßler and collegial feedback received during the 36th EGOS Colloquium as well as the Academy of Management 2020 Annual Meeting. Finally, we thank Matt Jones for help with copy editing the manuscript.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publica-tion of this article.
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Leona A. Henry https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4618-6552
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Author Biographies
Leona A. Henry (PhD, University of Witten/Herdecke) is an assistant professor in the Department of Organization Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on multistakeholder collaboration in the face of grand challenges, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. Her work has appeared in journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment and Management Revue - Socio-Economic Studies.
Andreas Rasche is a professor of Business in Society at the Centre for Corporate Sustainability at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and serves as the associate dean for the CBS MBA. He is also visiting professor at Stockholm School of Economics.
His research focuses on corporate sustainability standards as well as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and sustainable finance. He has taught courses in the MBA and doctoral programs, chaired Executive Education programs, authored more than 50 academic articles and cases, and published five books. He is associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly.