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Collaboration Processes: Inside the Black Box
Ann Marie Thomson,James L. Perry +1 more
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The authors argue that public managers should look inside the "black box" of collaboration processes and find a complex construct of five variable dimensions: governance, administration, organizational autonomy, mutuality, and norms.Abstract:
Social science research contains a wealth of knowledge for people seeking to understand collaboration processes. The authors argue that public managers should look inside the “black box” of collaboration processes. Inside, they will find a complex construct of five variable dimensions: governance, administration, organizational autonomy, mutuality, and norms. Public managers must know these five dimensions and manage them intentionally in order to collaborate effectively.read more
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An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize and extend a suite of conceptual frameworks, research findings, and practice-based knowledge into an integrative framework for collaborative governance, which specifies a set of nested dimensions that encompass a larger system context, a collaborative governance regime, and internal collaborative dynamics and actions that can generate impacts and adaptations across the systems.
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The Whole‐of‐Government Approach to Public Sector Reform
Tom Christensen,Per Lægreid +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the whole-of-government movement as a reaction to the negative effects of New Public Management reforms such as structural devolution, single-purpose organizations, and performance management.
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Public Value Governance: Moving Beyond Traditional Public Administration and the New Public Management
TL;DR: A new public administration movement is emerging to move beyond traditional public administration and New Public Management as discussed by the authors, which is a response to the challenges of a networked, multisector, no-one-wholly-in-charge world and to the shortcomings of previous public administration approaches.
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Designing and Implementing Cross‐Sector Collaborations: Needed and Challenging
TL;DR: This article reviews the authors’ and others’ important theoretical frameworks from the last decade, along with key empirical results, and favors research that takes a dynamic, multilevel systems view and makes use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, especially using longitudinal comparative case studies.
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Collaboration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings from a study that develops and tests the construct validity of a multidimensional model of collaboration using a mail questionnaire sent to 1382 directors of organizations that participate in a large national service program.
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