 Trust in public networks and public–private partnerships: achieving conditions for effectiveness and innovation?Erik Hans Klijn and Rianne Warsen Chapter 23 in Handbook on Trust in Public Governance, 2025, pp 381-394 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Public governance often takes place in public networks—settings in which public actors are dependent on other actors to achieve services or policy outcomes. Due to their long-term nature, complexity, interdependencies, and need for collaboration, the governance of these networks can be challenging. Trust is often considered an important concept in the governance of public networks as it might help to deal with complexity, enhance stability, and improve the performance. In this chapter, we systematically explore the main benefits of trust for public networks, including public–private partnerships. We elaborate on the relationship between trust and complexity, explain how trust provides stability and institutional certainty in complex cooperation, and address how trust may improve performance and foster innovation. We highlight empirical studies from scholars throughout the world. Finally, we address the question of how to foster trust between actors in networks and partnerships by focusing on some managerial requirements. Keywords: Trust; Networks; Public private partnerships; Network performance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20954_23 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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