Purpose The concept of collaboration has received increased attention from scholars in
public management, as it has been seen as a viable solution to address “wicked” problems …

The topic of public service partnerships has clear substantive importance. Governments all
over the world are increasing their dependence upon collaborative partnerships to delivery …

The real work of many governments is done not in stately domed capitols but by a network of
federal and state officials working with local governments and nongovernmental …

Integration has emerged as having an increasingly significant role in public policy discourse
and practice in many jurisdictions across the globe. In providing a different framework for …

There has been increasing interest in collaborations, partnerships and networks as they
have emerged as interorganizational innovations to address the integrated nature of …

Collaboration has been enacted as a core strategy by both the government and
nongovernment sectors to address many of the intractable issues confronting contemporary …

Public, nonprofit and private organisations respond to large‐scale disasters domestically
and overseas. Critics of these assistance efforts, as well as those involved, often cite poor …

Recent disasters have identified that interorganizational collaboration is often fraught with
complexity. This article explores interorganizational collaboration in the nonprofit and public …

As public problems have become more and more complex, there has been a realization that
individual government agencies, working alone, can no longer handle these" wicked …

BACKGROUND In 1999, Menzel and Carson reviewed the state of public administration
ethics research published in the United States. That review, among other things, called for …