Book chapter
Unpacking hybrid governance arrangements: evidence from the field
Public Policies for Hybrid Governance, pp.120-139
Edward Elgar Publishing
02/04/2025
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Abstract
Despite the ongoing promise of hybrid governance arrangements for social services provision, understanding how and why these mixed arrangements are formed, composed, evolve and contribute to institutional and social change needs to be explored. This will help overcome continuing, problematic tendencies for broad descriptions rather than unpacking their characteristics, how these contribute to achieving integrated service changes, and whether foundational mixes may set up pathways towards future hybrid modes. These knowledge gaps are addressed with a retrospective review of three hybrid network governance cases formed in the early 2000s, with some evidence of a continuing contemporary presence to distil their compositions, the conditions under which they were formed and evolved and how this provided pathways to future operations. The findings suggest that some network hybrid design compositions are more numerous and varied than currently presented, requiring expanded theoretical frameworks and management skills, especially concerning adaptive practices and navigating complexity.
Details
- Title
- Unpacking hybrid governance arrangements: evidence from the field
- Creators
- Robyn Keast - Southern Cross UniversityJack W. Meek - University of La Verne
- Contributors
- Jarmo Vakkuri (Editor) - Tampere UniversityJan‐Erik Johanson (Editor) - Tampere UniversityRomulo Pinheiro (Editor) - University of AgderTero Erkkilä (Editor) - University of Helsinki
- Publication Details
- Public Policies for Hybrid Governance, pp.120-139
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing; Cheltenham, UK
- Number of pages
- 20
- Identifiers
- 991013285532802368
- Copyright
- © The Editors and Contributors Severally 2025
- Academic Unit
- Management; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter