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Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration
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Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration

by John J. Forrer, James Edwin Kee, Eric Boyer
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 5m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter SixIndependent Public-Services ProvidersA New Potential Collaborator

Independent public-services providers (IPSPs) present the newest option for collaboration to public managers. These new entities at first appearance may look similar to networks or partnerships. Yet IPSPs have an approach to governance that makes them distinctive and offers a unique collaborative opportunity to public managers. All the other cross-sector collaborations (CSC) involve activities and relationships that advance the specific goals of a government program or policy. Collaborating with IPSPs is unique because the public service being provided is determined by the IPSP, not government.

Among all of the CSC considered here, IPSPs have two extreme conditions ...

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