Creating Opportunity Spaces for Co-Production : Professional Co-Producers in Inter-Organizational Collaborations

This chapter builds a conceptual model for how inter-organizational relationships can be built to enable the creation of learning across administrative and organizational boundaries. The conceptual model is discussed in relation to the body of knowledge concerning co-production and the new roles required of organizational members and frontline staff when services cut across these boundaries. The argument is that it is becoming increasingly important for professional co-producers and their organizations to identify, analyze, and improve the opportunity space for co-production when this opportunity space unfolds beyond one organization.© 2004-2021 by IGI Global All rights reserved.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Exploring collective leadership and coproduction: An empirical study

Replaced version without front matter with version with front matter 2021-02-08.This chapter explores coproduction through a collective leadership lens. It draws from the public administration and leadership fields and a 2019 empirical study of public service collaboration in Scotland, UK. It is suggested that tensions generated by working within a New Public Management model combined with frustrations felt from current collaborative practice have motivated an exploration into alternative conceptions of leadership and different ways of working when collaborating. The findings reveal that collaboration can be strengthened through the application of four key processual and attitudinal modifications. This approach is described as working in an emergent and relational way while applying a systems and inquiry mind-set. It is the effect of the sum of these parts that boosts the intensity of collaborative work, offering a number of benefits, including an enriched and dynamic coproduction process embedded within its practice.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4975-9pubpu