Advancing Co-Creation in Local Governance : : The Role of Coping Strategies and Constructive Hybridization / / edited by Asbjø Røiseland, Eva Sørensen, and Jacob Torfing.

• TeilnehmendeR: Røiseland, Asbjørn,; Sørensen, Eva,; Torfing, Jacob,; Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Cheltenham, England : : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Policy, Administrative and Institutional Change Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"This innovative book presents a theoretical framework for understanding co-creation and the ways that public leaders may cope with the conflicts, dilemmas and paradoxes that arise when co-creation clashes with existing governance paradigms, such as old-style bureaucracy and New Public Management. Chapters identify the relative hostility of public sector environments towards the expansion of co-creation due to their continued commitment to sovereign political leadership, bureaucratic governance and performance management. Contributing authors analyse how these tensions hamper the adoption and functioning of co-creation as a tool of governance and prevent public and private actors benefitting from new ideas and practices. In response, they employ data from Nordic municipalities to provide a classification of strategies that managers in public service organizations may use to cope with these conflicts. Outlining how new and old forms of public governance can be aligned to reach their full potential, this forward-thinking book will be invaluable to students and scholars of governance and regulation, public administration and management, and public policy. Its practical insights will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners in private consultancy firms interested in collaboration, constructive hybridization, and new developments in public governance"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. What to do when co-creation clashes with old public governance paradigms? -- 2. Co-creation as public governance: Revisiting the bright and dark sides -- 3. When co-creation meets the existing governance paradigms -- 4. Coping with conflicts, dilemmas and paradoxes through constructive hybridization -- 5. Presentation of cases, methods and contexts -- 6. Citizens as clients, customers and partners: Evolving roles and relationships in co-creation -- 7. Bureaucracy and co-creation: Coping with dilemmas through institutional design -- 8. Professional rule meets co-creation: Challenges and coping strategies -- 9. Managing co-creation and coping with value -- 10. Co-creation challenges to public leadership: Tensions, dilemmas and coping mechanisms -- 11. Co-existing systems of performance management: Conflicts, coping strategies and emergent hybridity -- 12. Embracing co-creation: Next-step challenges for theory and practice -- 13. Navigating unavoidable clashes -- Index.