All That Glitters: Competing Narratives and Transaction Costs in Complex Collaborative Environments

摘要：

By recognizing that economists use the transaction cost methodology to account for the role of actors engaged in market exchange, this study draws from that insight as a way of delineating various critical factors that influence the effectiveness of collaborations in the public sector. While collaboration is not only about making public service delivery more efficient; it also transcends the constant struggle for advantage and accommodation between agencies either in specific policy domains or in the control over resources and asset-specific programmatic initiatives. As organizations seek the protection of their institutional identity, culture, and power; they also set in motion corresponding processes that work in tandem to create factors which may lead to collaborative inertia. Effective collaboration therefore requires a complementary structural design (governance mechanism) that accommodates the various disincentives of asymmetry and size-power relations in complex collaborative processes.

关键词： Public sector collaboration Transactions costs Collaborative inertia Structural design Governance problems

作者: KaluN.Kalu

作者单位: Professor, Department of Political Science & Public Administration Auburn University Montgomery, P. O. Box 244023, Montgomery, AL 36124, USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)

会议地点: 印度海德拉巴

会议语种:英文

页码: 681-693

在线出版日期: 2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）