Collaboration and partnership: an effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand?

By Chris. Miller, Y. Ahmad. 2000

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Posits that collaboration in the UK is either recommended as good practice or enshrined within legislation as a necessity. Chronicles that there has been a sustained growth in the number of formal and informal collaborative relationships between state agencies and market, voluntary and community sectors, as well as within and between state agencies themselves. Uses illustrative case study materials drawn from the authors’ research and consultancy experiences, particularly in the areas of inner city community based mental health, urban regeneration, policing, and child and adolescent mental health. Concludes that research has extensively been drawn on to illustrate the dilemmas that regularly arise when attempting to implement this policy objective.

Subfields: Education, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• The Dialectic of Social Exchange: Theorizing Corporate—Social Enterprise Collaboration (2009, background): “…both public–private sector collaboration (e.g. Wettenhall 2003) and indeed collaborations involving non-profit, public and private sector organizations (e.g. Miller and Ahmad 2000), this literature has also tended to work within the confines of the dominant theoretical perspectives outlined above.”