Co-Production and Public Service Management

10Co-Production and Public Administration Regimes

Their Impact on Hybrid Organizations

A. Introduction

This chapter analyzes the impact of co-production and public administration regimes (PARs) on hybrid organizations. Both the study of PARs and co-production are relatively new academic fields, so there is still little systematic knowledge on how they impact hybridity, and in particular how they impact third sector organizations (TSOs). TSOs often work closely with public sector organizations, sometimes in partnership, so important changes in the way the public sector works have clear implications for TSOs and other hybrid organizations. For example, a major shift in the function and operation of traditional public administration in the early ...