Collaborative futures: discursive realignments in austere times

Helen Sullivan, Paul Williams, Mick Marchington and Louise Knight

Public Money & Management, 2013, vol. 33, issue 2, 123-130

Abstract: This article explores the future of collaboration in an era of austerity. Boundary object theory provides a framework to assess the significance and role of four key discourses in collaboration—efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness and cultural performance. Crisis provides a way of examining how discourses realign. The exploration of discourses aids critical analysis of collaboration across sectoral, geographical and disciplinary boundaries, highlighting the importance of understanding the contextual roots of collaboration theory and practice, and the implications of local/global dynamics.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2013.763424

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