Abstract
Collaborative governance is popular among practitioners and scholars, but getting a grip on the performance of collaborations remains a challenge. Recent research has made progress by identifying appropriate performance measures, yet managing performance also requires appropriate performance routines. This article brings together insights from collaborative governance and performance management to conceptualize collaborative performance regimes; the collection of routines used by actors working together on a societal issue to explicate their goals, exchange performance information, examine progress, and explore performance improvement actions. The concept of regimes is made concrete by focusing on the specific routine of organizing a collaborative performance summit; a periodic gathering where partners review their joint performance. Such summits are both manifestations of the performance regime and potential turning points for regime change. Using three local public health collaborations as illustration, this article offers a framework for understanding collaborative performance regimes, summits, and the dynamics between them.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 951-961 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Public Administration Review |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank Mijke van de Noort, who as a graduate student was instrumental in shaping and observing the summits discussed in this article, and all the officials and citizens who participated in the events. The authors would also like to thank Eva Sorensen, Shui Yan Tang, Paul't Hart, the participants of the Consortium for Collaborative Governance 2019 meeting, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article. This article was made possible by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 694266).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. Public Administration Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Public Administration.
Funding
The authors would like to thank Mijke van de Noort, who as a graduate student was instrumental in shaping and observing the summits discussed in this article, and all the officials and citizens who participated in the events. The authors would also like to thank Eva Sorensen, Shui Yan Tang, Paul't Hart, the participants of the Consortium for Collaborative Governance 2019 meeting, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article. This article was made possible by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 694266).
