8 Managing Collaborations and Partnerships
Collaborative arrangements and partnerships have emerged as core improvement strategies in the past two decades. Collaboration is broadly defined as “any joint activity by two or more organizations that is intended to increase public value by their working together rather than separately” (Bardach 1998, p. 8). Collaboration links or shares information, resources, activities, and capabilities by organizations to achieve outcomes that cannot separately be achieved by these organizations (Bryson et al. 2006). Collaboration helps address the increased complexity of many problems, and collaboration is strongly associated with New Public Governance. However, collaboration also ...
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