Collaboration and partnership: an effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand?

Miller, Chris; Ahmad, Yusuf

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“…Partnerships and collaboration with specialists from different backgrounds are recommended by health and social services agencies to be responsive to service user needs (DoH, 1995(DoH, , 1997(DoH, , 1998(DoH, , 1999a(DoH, , 1999b(DoH, , 2000(DoH, , 2001. Such initiatives offer a pool of resources (Balloch & Taylor, 2001;Ling, 2000) and COMMUNICATION, LIFE PARTICIPATION, WELL-BEING enable shared learning and opportunity to consider new ways of working (Miller & Ahmad, 2000). The involvement of personnel in addition to speech and language therapists working together to support people with aphasia could provide a way forward but as yet has not been documented.…”

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Evaluation of communication, life participation and psychological well‐being in chronic aphasia: The influence of group intervention

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“…As Whitehead (2007) suggests, however, there is an emphasis and general assumption within the academic literature regarding the formality of partnership structures. This degree of formalisation is a feature that has been used, and will be used in this paper, to distinguish partnership as a specific form of collaboration 1 (Miller andAhmed 2000, Lowndes andSkelcher 1998). Moreover, Sullivan et al (2006) also differentiate between the role of collaboration as a mechanism for joint action and the narrower focus on partnerships as a governing mechanism.…”

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Collaboration in local sport services in England: issues emerging from case studies of two local authority areas

Lindsey

2009

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Encouraging collaboration has been a central component of the Labour government's drive to modernise the delivery of public services and has been a key facet of recent sport policy in England. The proliferation of different forms of collaboration represents a reaction to the changes instigated by previous Conservative governments, which created a fragmented and congested state in which management approaches were based on competition and the value for money delivered by individual governmental agencies. However, the research literature on collaboration is somewhat limited by a lack of definitional clarity and is also characterised by the diversity of theoretical approaches that have been utilised. Research on collaboration in sport also remains in its infancy. To begin to address this limitation, case studies of collaboration between agencies involved in sport and physical activity for young people in two urban local authority areas are presented. The case studies provide evidence of the importance of such collaborations where there are a variety of sporting agencies that operate in changing local contexts.El fomento de la colaboración ha sido un componente decisivo en la motivación del gobierno laborista en la modernización del reparto de los servicios públicos, y la clave de la política del deporte actualmente en Inglaterra. La proliferación de distintas maneras de colaboración, representa una reacción frente a los cambios realizados por los distintos gobiernos conservadores que creó un estado congestionado y fragmentado, en el que se basaron los enfoques gubernamentales en la rivalidad y en la relación calidadprecio dada por agencias gubernamentales individuales. Debido a la falta de claridad en cuanto a la definición del término colaboración, no existe mucha investigación literaria sobre el tema, y también se define por la diversidad de enfoques teóricos que se han utilizado. La investigación sobre la colaboración en el deporte está en los primeros estadios. Para empezar a tratar esta limitación se presentan dos estudios sobre la colaboración entre agencias del deporte y la actividad física de jóvenes de dos áreas de autoridades locales. Los estudios presentan una evidencia sobre la importancia de la colaboración para cambiar el contexto local en que una variedad de agencias están involucradas en el deporte y la actividad física de los jóvenes. Además, los problemas surgidos de ambos estudios relacionados tanto con los estructuras en si como con los procesos dentro de ellas, reflejan aspectos importantes identificados en literaturas conceptuales más amplias. El artículo concluye contemplando brevemente las implicaciones de los problemas frente a políticos, profesionales y futuros investigaciones sobre la colaboración en el deporte.

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“…Touted as a useful response to the limited flexibility of outdated and inflexible government departments that adopted 'silo' mentalities (Newman, 2001: p.106), partnership approaches have been widely adopted to establish a means of addressing complex and multi-faceted issues such as crime, poverty, and social exclusion via the collective engagement of government, communities and citizens (Miller and Ahmad, 2000;Newman, 2001;Stoker, 2004). Underpinned by a broader emerging neo-liberal model of governance, greater partnership was also championed as a means of improving transparency in decision making and local autonomy over services via the involvement of communities and third sector organisations in decision making processes (Chapman et al 2010;Daly and Davis, 2002;Sullivan and Skelcher, 2002).…”

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Partnership working in sport and physical activity promotion: An assessment of processes and outcomes in community sports networks

Baker

Ansari

Crone

2016

Public Policy and Administration

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Community sports networks were established in 2007 to coordinate local sport and physical activity promotion. Partnerships continue to be used to deliver policy. It is important to understand the relationship between the internal structure of partnerships and their outcomes. This study assesses associations between predictor variables relating to partnership structure and process and four intermediary partnership outcomes: satisfaction, synergy, commitment and effectiveness. A retrospective analysis of data was conducted on 171 surveys administered between September 2008 and March 2009 from community sports network members in England. The predictor variables explained 67% of the variance in synergy, 75% of the variance in satisfaction, 63% of the variance in commitment and 46% of the variance in effectiveness. Sustaining a positive benefits-to-costs relationship, establishing effective communication and partnership strategy, and demonstrating impact were predictive of the four intermediary partnership outcomes. Further research is warranted to help establish a detailed understanding of partnership processes and outcomes.

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Collaboration and partnership: an effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand?

Cited by 70 publications

References 21 publications

Evaluation of communication, life participation and psychological well‐being in chronic aphasia: The influence of group intervention

Evaluation of communication, life participation and psychological well‐being in chronic aphasia: The influence of group intervention

Collaboration in local sport services in England: issues emerging from case studies of two local authority areas

Partnership working in sport and physical activity promotion: An assessment of processes and outcomes in community sports networks

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