Frustrations in Collaborative Working

Clare Rigg and Noreen O'Mahony

Public Management Review, 2013, vol. 15, issue 1, 83-108

Abstract: Qualitative evidence from an action research study is used to address the research question ‘how can institutional context help explain frustrations within local collaborations?’ This study of multi-agency collaboration for local economic strategy in Ireland finds that individual and organization actions at a local level are substantially shaped along paths structured by funding and performance management arrangements of multiple central government departments. The article concludes that any calls for greater collaboration at a local level will produce limited effects without a simultaneous scrutiny of cross-boundary working at the centre.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.686231

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