Based on a comparative case study of six cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) in global health, we illustrate how a CSP’s aim to address a social issue on the basis of products influences the governance of collective action within the partnership and beyond, at the field level. We show how such product focus, through specialization, influences a CSP’s structures and interaction culture and, as a reflection of the partners’ underlying logics, generates different CSP-field effects. Specifically, if conceived as self-contained and without considering the implications for other field players and programs, a product focus may expedite collective action within the CSP, but spur fragmentation and disruption at the field level. Conversely, if designed to strengthen field capacity and integration at the product-field interlinkages, a product focus may take longer to form but helps avoid the above field effects. On this basis, we advance theory on CSPs’ product focus as a multilevel coordination mechanism and elaborate on the implications for designing product-based CSPs.

基于对六个全球卫生领域跨部门伙伴关系（CSP）的比较案例研究，我们说明了CSP以产品为基础解决社会问题的目标如何影响伙伴关系内外的集体行动治理水平。我们将展示这种产品聚焦如何通过专业化来影响CSP的结构和互动文化，并反映合作伙伴的基本逻辑，从而产生不同的CSP领域效应。具体而言，如果将其视为独立的，并且不考虑对其他现场参与者和计划的影响，则关注产品可能会加快CSP内部的集体行动，但会刺激现场层面的分散和破坏。相反，如果旨在增强现场能力和产品-现场互连的集成，产品重点可能需要更长的时间才能形成，但有助于避免上述场效应。在此基础上，我们提出了有关CSP产品关注焦点的理论，该理论是一种多级协调机制，并详细阐述了设计基于产品的CSP的意义。