Advancing Collaboration Theory: Models, Typologies, and by John C. Morris, Katrina Miller-Stevens

By John C. Morris, Katrina Miller-Stevens

The time period collaboration is widespread yet now not truly understood or operationalized. besides the fact that, collaboration is taking part in an more and more vital function among and throughout public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has develop into an indicator in either intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships. As collaboration scholarship quickly emerges, it diverges into a number of instructions, leading to confusion approximately what collaboration is and what it may be used to complete. This ebook presents a lot wanted perception into current principles and theories of collaboration, advancing a revised theoretical version and accompanying typologies that additional our figuring out of collaborative techniques in the public sector.

Organized into 3 elements, each one bankruptcy provides a special theoretical method of public difficulties, valuing the collective insights that outcome from honoring many person views. Case stories in collaboration, cut up throughout 3 degrees of presidency, supply extra views on unanswered questions within the literature. Contributions are made by means of authors from quite a few backgrounds, together with an legal professional, a occupation educator, a federal govt, a human source administrator, a police officer, a self-employed entrepreneur, in addition to students of public management and public coverage. Drawing upon the person studies provided through those views, the publication emphasizes the commonalities of collaboration. it really is from this universal flooring, the shared stories solid between possible disparate interactions that advances in collaboration idea arise.

Advancing Collaboration Theory deals a distinct compilation of collaborative types and typologies that increase the prevailing realizing of public region collaboration.

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One views social capital as a transactional mechanism between actors that requires mutual exchange to establish norms of trust and reciprocity. Another views social capital as generated in a generalized way from social interactions across a network (Putnam, 2000). Linking Back to Foundations—Ostrom’s Institutional Framework Social capital as the basis of collective action is also at the heart of Ostrom’s (2005, 2007) institutionalist framework, which is one of the most refined and general frameworks derived from a systems approach.

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Gray’s 1985 work can thus be reasonably viewed as the ‘starting point’ for the body of collaboration literature. 2 The specific differences between ‘collaboration’ and ‘mandated collaboration’ are addressed in Chapter 4. , participation is not voluntary). 3 Later chapters in this volume will address the definitional questions in more detail. In terms of the present discussion, we suggest these forms of interaction are distinct, and thus may be defined as discrete arrangements. , & McGuire, M. (1999).

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