Images of Coordination: How Implementing Organizations Perceive Coordination Arrangements

摘要: A crucial challenge for the coordination of horizontal policy programs—those designed to tackle crosscutting issues—is how motivate government organizations contribute such programs. Hence, it is study practitioners in implementing view and appreciate Assisted by Q-methodology, this inductive reveals three significantly different “images”: central frame setting, networking via boundary spanners, beyond window dressing. Most surprisingly, images show up among respondents within same The authors find that reflect elements literature: resistance hierarchical control, need local differentiation increased incentives, a collaboration-oriented culture. importantly, perceive top-down mechanisms as ineffective achieve ask adaptive arrangements, involvement, deliberative processes when designing arrangements during collaboration.