Understanding Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

▸ Chapter 7A Manager’s Guide to Choosing and Using Collaborative Networks

H. Brinton Milward and Keith G. Provan

DOI: 10.4324/9781003387800-17

Originally published online by IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2006 (www.businessofgovernment.org). Reprinted with permission.

In what he calls the global public management revolution, Don Kettl has identified six common ideas behind the public management revolution: the search for greater productivity; more public reliance on private markets; a stronger orientation toward service; more decentralization from national to subnational governments; increased capacity to devise and track public policy; and tactics to enhance accountability for results (Kettl 2005).

Instead of organizing, providing, ...