Collaborating to Manage: A Primer for the Public Sector

In: Public Management and Change Series

Abstract

Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era wheregovernment must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies towork together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoffexamines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grantsand regulation management, purchase-of-service contracting, networking,public/nonprofit partnerships and other lateral arrangements in the context of thechanging public agency. As he steers the reader through various ways of coping withsuch organizational