The application of complexity theory to management and the social sciences has been a key
development in theory and practice over the last decade. This approach questions the …

Conservation decisions increasingly involve multiple environmental and social objectives,
which result in complex decision contexts with high potential for trade‐offs. Improving social …

Collaboration between public sector organizations is typically understood as a response to
complexity. Agencies collaborate in order to address complex, cross-cutting policy needs …

Inter‐municipal cooperation is often regarded as an alternative to privatizing local public
services. But cooperation and privatization can also be combined into a dual reform …

By working with business, public organisations are assumed to benefit from: a more
contestable procurement process; access to private sector entrepreneurialism and the …

Improving efficiency is the basis for important public school reforms. While there has been
substantial scholarship examining the relationship between actual and perceived …

Building on the literature on co‐production and the (pragmatist) literature on experimentalist
policy‐making we introduce and evaluate a novel form of co‐production: experimental co …

Efficiency in public service delivery is critical in enhancing and improving the quality of
citizens' lives. Conversely, inefficient public service delivery has profound adverse effects on …

The past few decades have been characterized by a growing body of profit-seeking public
service areas with the understanding that profit-seeking organizations will deliver public …

Evaluations of public service collaborations tend to ignore time and timing as potential
explanatory variables. Drawing on theories of environmental dynamism, organizational …