Unpredictable cocktails or recurring recipes? Identifying the patterns that shape collaborative performance summits

Scott Douglas*, Marie Jeanne Schiffelers

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Abstract

Advancing the performance of collaborations requires not only shared performance indicators, but also shared performance routines. Collaborative performance summits offer partners a routine for jointly explicating goals, exchanging performance information, examining progress, and exploring actions. However, summits can easily devolve into pointless talking shops or political warzones. Research has identified what ingredients shape a summit, but how exactly these ingredients interact and produce summit outcomes is less well understood. Through the systematic observation of eight summits, we identify and precisely describe 13 interaction patterns. These findings can be tested through future research and inform the design of summits.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1705-1723
Number of pages19
JournalPublic Management Review
Volume23
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Stichting Lezen en Schrijven/Dutch foundation for Reading and Writing [Project funding]. This research was funded by Stichting Lezen en Schrijven, the national foundation for adult illiteracy in the Netherlands. The authors would like to thank all the participants in the summits discussed in this article and the reviewers for their valuable comments.

Funding Information:
This research was funded by Stichting Lezen en Schrijven, the national foundation for adult illiteracy in the Netherlands. The authors would like to thank all the participants in the summits discussed in this article and the reviewers for their valuable comments.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Funding

This work was supported by the Stichting Lezen en Schrijven/Dutch foundation for Reading and Writing [Project funding]. This research was funded by Stichting Lezen en Schrijven, the national foundation for adult illiteracy in the Netherlands. The authors would like to thank all the participants in the summits discussed in this article and the reviewers for their valuable comments. This research was funded by Stichting Lezen en Schrijven, the national foundation for adult illiteracy in the Netherlands. The authors would like to thank all the participants in the summits discussed in this article and the reviewers for their valuable comments.

Keywords

  • action research
  • collaborative governance
  • Collaborative performance summits
  • intervention study
  • performance management
  • public management

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