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Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 11 |
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Publication status | Published - 8 Jun 2015 |
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Event | International Institute of Administrative Sciences- Study Group in Co-production in Public services - Nimegen, Netherlands Duration: 8 Jun 2015 → 9 Jun 2015 |
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Conference | International Institute of Administrative Sciences- Study Group in Co-production in Public services |
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Country/Territory | Netherlands |
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City | Nimegen |
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Period | 8/06/15 → 9/06/15 |
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Abstract
The notion of service co-production is becoming firmly embedded in the contemporary discourse on public service provision. While talking about co-production is rapidly gaining in popularity among policy makers and practitioners, the academic discourse is characterised by significant conceptual gaps despite an ever growing range of case studies of co-production. Of particular concern here is that questions associated with leading service co-production are theoretically and empirically under-developed. This paper makes a contribution towards filling this gap by putting forward a framework for the exploration of leadership in the co-production process. An initial and preliminary application of this framework to case studies of co-production suggests that the citizen co-producer is limited in the way she can enact leadership functions, the regular public service producer appears to be firmly ‘in the lead’ except where citizens are engaged in a process that runs from design, to management and implementation of a service.
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Hans Schlappa, and Yassaman Imani, 'Leading the co-production process: Who is in charge?', paper presented at the IIAS Study Group Open Meeting, "Coproduction of Public Services", Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 8-9 June 2015.
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