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Collaborative Public Management: Assessing What We Know and How We Know It
Author(s) -
McGuire Michael
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00664.x
Subject(s) - flourishing , public sector , knowledge management , need to know , public relations , process (computing) , knowledge base , business , set (abstract data type) , political science , computer science , psychology , world wide web , computer security , law , psychotherapist , programming language , operating system
Collaborative public management research is flourishing. A great deal of attention is being paid to the process and impact of collaboration in the public sector, and the results are promising. This article reviews the literature on collaborative public management by synthesizing what we know from recent research and what we’ve known for quite some time. It addresses the prevalence of collaboration (both recently and historically), the components of emerging collaborative structures, the types of skills that are unique to collaborative management, and the effects of collaboration. Collaborative public management research offers a set of findings that contribute to an emerging knowledge base that supplements established public management theory.