TY - JOUR
T1 - How far have we come with co-production-and what's next?
AU - Bovaird, Tony
AU - Flemig, Sophie
AU - Loeffler, Elke
AU - Osborne, Stephen P.
PY - 2019/5/20
Y1 - 2019/5/20
N2 - In March 2017, we announced that we were guesteediting a Public Money & Management theme on coproduction, reflecting on the ever-increasing use of the concept in the public sector around the world, particularly in countries that have experienced prolonged austerity and major cutbacks in the public sector, to which co-production potentially seemed at least a partial solution (Bovaird, Flemig, Loeffler, & Osborne, 2017).
However, we also suggested that all might not be as it seems—although co-production might be widely espoused by the top management of many public sector organizations, it may be honoured more in the breach than the observance. Moreover, there may be a ‘dark side’ to co-production, for example where it represents simply public care agencies dumping the responsibility for care services onto families, friends and neighbours. Following on from special issues on co-production in both the International Review of Administrative Sciences and Public Management Review, we invited researchers to submit contributions which addressed the potential of co-production, its results to date and reasons for its limited dissemination, even where it was apparently embedded in public sector strategies.
AB - In March 2017, we announced that we were guesteediting a Public Money & Management theme on coproduction, reflecting on the ever-increasing use of the concept in the public sector around the world, particularly in countries that have experienced prolonged austerity and major cutbacks in the public sector, to which co-production potentially seemed at least a partial solution (Bovaird, Flemig, Loeffler, & Osborne, 2017).
However, we also suggested that all might not be as it seems—although co-production might be widely espoused by the top management of many public sector organizations, it may be honoured more in the breach than the observance. Moreover, there may be a ‘dark side’ to co-production, for example where it represents simply public care agencies dumping the responsibility for care services onto families, friends and neighbours. Following on from special issues on co-production in both the International Review of Administrative Sciences and Public Management Review, we invited researchers to submit contributions which addressed the potential of co-production, its results to date and reasons for its limited dissemination, even where it was apparently embedded in public sector strategies.
KW - co-production
KW - public sector
KW - strategy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066124342&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09540962.2019.1592903
DO - 10.1080/09540962.2019.1592903
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85066124342
VL - 39
SP - 229
EP - 232
JO - Public Money and Management
JF - Public Money and Management
SN - 0954-0962
IS - 4
ER -