Service innovation or collaborative tradition? : Public motives for partnerships with third sector organisations
(2020) In Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change 17(1). p.71-90- Abstract
- Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate public partners’ motives for seeking and/or accepting partnerships with third sector organisations.
Design/methodology/approach
The approach is to seek to identify and explain motives from different perspectives; as responses to government failure or voluntary failure, as related to governance structures, and/or as driven by resource dependencies. The empirical material was gathered through semi-structured interviews with public employees in Swedish municipalities. The aim of the interviews was to grasp the public partners’ motives for partnerships with third sector organisations. Each interview started with questions on the presence and forms of partnerships, thus... (More) - Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate public partners’ motives for seeking and/or accepting partnerships with third sector organisations.
Design/methodology/approach
The approach is to seek to identify and explain motives from different perspectives; as responses to government failure or voluntary failure, as related to governance structures, and/or as driven by resource dependencies. The empirical material was gathered through semi-structured interviews with public employees in Swedish municipalities. The aim of the interviews was to grasp the public partners’ motives for partnerships with third sector organisations. Each interview started with questions on the presence and forms of partnerships, thus creating a backdrop for the motives, both during the interview and as a map of the partnership landscape.
Findings
The most prominent motives for public engagement in partnerships with third sector organisations are related to democratic values, the need to solve concrete problems, and economic rationality. The motives vary with the type of partnership of which there is considerable variation in scale, content and contribution; the types of partnership vary with different policy fields and services. Different perspectives highlight different motives but none of them excludes other perspectives.
Originality/value
The main contribution of the paper is the empirically based findings of a multi-layered public–third sector partnership landscape where policy fields, forms and complex motives are intertwined.
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- author
- Hellström, Caroline LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-10-26
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Resource dependence, Public governance, Partnership motives, Voluntary failure, Public third-sector partnerships
- in
- Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 71 - 90
- publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85095700888
- ISSN
- 1832-5912
- DOI
- 10.1108/JAOC-09-2020-0133
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 65cf6f12-e47c-43bb-a460-a2eb0c7365e9
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- 2020-11-10 10:55:55
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title = {{Service innovation or collaborative tradition? : Public motives for partnerships with third sector organisations}},
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