CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UNA VARIABLE ORDINAL PARA MEDIR LA PROFUNDIDAD DE LOS PROCESOS DE COLABORACIÓN INTERSECTORIAL

Collaborative work between civil society organizations, state institutions and companies can take on different degrees of depth, involving different levels of commitment between the parties. In the literature is suggested that these degrees of depth correspond to different stages through which cross-sector collaboration can pass over time and proposed three major sta­ges: Philanthropic, transactional and strategic. In general, research on this topic is qualitative, based almost exclusively on case studies, which constitutes a clear limitation, both for the creation of a solid base of replicable and extrapolated scientific knowledge, and for the theoretical development on the same. The objective of this work was to construct an ordinal variable that measures the depth of cross-sector collaboration, according the three stages proposed by James Austin. The research consisted of a survey applied to a non-probabilistic sample of companies that in Uruguay maintain permanent forms of colla­boration with social organizations or public institutions. The data indicate that the ordinal variable constructed was relevant. From its application it is concluded, from its application, that most of the collaborative relationships studied are within the transactional or strategic stages.