Debate: against collaboration

Pell, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1504-2129, 2016. Debate: against collaboration. Local Government Studies, 36 (1), pp. 4-5. ISSN 0300-3930

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Abstract

This article argues that collaboration should not be a policy goal of government. Collaboration does not solve the problem of fragmented services. Focusing on collaboration wastes money, fosters compliance and creates a new layer of bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the true cause of fragmented services goes unaddressed.

Collaboration has been a policy goal of the UK government since the election of Labour in 1997. It has become a central feature of policy initiatives, cross-agency funding and performance-reporting regimes.

As Huxham (Citation1996) notes, there is little consensus about what the term ‘collaboration’ means, either in theory or in practice. I use the term here to describe inter-organizational relationships in public services funded or mandated by central government. I make eight charges against government-funded collaboration.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Local Government Studies
Creators:	Pell, C.
Publisher:	Routledge
Date:	2016
Volume:	36
Number:	1
ISSN:	0300-3930
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/09540962.2016.1103410 DOI 1784999 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	24 Jul 2023 13:41
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2023 13:41
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49430

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