Co-Production - The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

Informationen zum Autor Pestoff, Victor; Brandsen, Taco Klappentext Public management research has, in recent years, paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. In this thematic presentation understanding of the subject is enhanced by presenting several new studies on the subject and introducing the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a conceptual framework that enables developments in the area to be better understood. Zusammenfassung Public management research has in recent years paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. This book helps in understanding of the subject by presenting several studies on the subject and introducing the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a framework. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Co-Production in European Childcare 3. Co-Production in Canadian Childcare 4. Co-Management in Public Service Provision: The Organizational Effects 5. Network Governance and the For-Profit/Nonprofit Divide: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Organizational Fields in Domiciliary Eldercare 6. The Emergence of Local Nonprofit-Government Partnerships and the Role of Intermediary Organizations in Japan 7. A Comparative Analysis of the Different Forms of Financing Collective Childcare Services in Eight European Countries 8. Co-Production Reconsidered: Nostalgia or the Wave of the Future?

Product details

• Authors: Victor Brandsen Pestoff
• Assisted by: Taco Brandsen (Editor), Brandsen Taco (Editor), Victor Pestoff (Editor), Pestoff Victor (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2007
• EAN: 9780415439633
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43963-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, Business & management, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector