Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration

As part of the John Bryson Series in Public and Nonprofit Management, Cross-Sector Collaboration and Governance will provide both academic programs in public policy/public administration and practicing public managers with insights on emerging cross-sector organizations, how to analyze them, when to engage them, and how to create mutual accountability in the public interest. In this book, the authors tackle the issues of collaborative governance in the context of public administration studies, highlighting the choices available to managers when deciding to use collaborative approaches,  discussing the important trade-offs that accompany the different options, and assessing which type of cross-sector collaboration is best for any given situation. Based on the authors' research of case studies at the global, federal, state and local level, interviews with public sector leaders, and considerable web analysis of organizations under the public-private umbrella (PPPs, networks and PEOs), Cross-Sector Collaboration and Governance is an important and timely contribution to the field of public management.