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Title
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Collaborative cost-cutting : productive efficiency as an interdependency between public organizations
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Author
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Abstract
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| Collaboration between public sector organizations is typically understood as a response to complexity. Agencies collaborate in order to address complex, cross-cutting policy needs that cannot be met individually. However, when organizational size is a constraining factor in public service efficiency, collaboration can also reduce costs by capturing scale economies unavailable to organizations of sub-optimal size. Using organization theory, the article conceptualizes these two different triggers for public sector collaboration, and builds a framework for tracing their wider impact upon the formation, operation, and outcome of inter-agency partnerships. The framework is illustrated, and its implications for future research are explored. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Public management review. - Londen
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Publication
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Londen
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2018
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ISSN
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1471-9037
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1471-9045
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Volume/pages
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20
:12
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, p. 1815-1835
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ISI
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000446117300004
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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