Transforming the Public Sector Into an Arena for Co-Creation: Barriers, Drivers, Benefits, and Ways Forward

Torfing, Jacob; Sørensen, Eva; Roiseland, Asbjørn

doi:10.1177/0095399716680057

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“…Public/governmental agencies should look at formally building multi‐sector partnerships and leverage the limited human and financial resources (Sorensen and Torfing , Torfing et al. ). Collaboration with other sectors has the potential to leverage the return‐on‐investments and telemetry is a unique tool that thrives off of collaborative research and designs for it to reach its potential.…”

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Collaboration and engagement produce more actionable science: quantitatively analyzing uptake of fish tracking studies

Nguyen

Young

Brownscombe

et al. 2019

Ecological Applications

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Aquatic telemetry technology generates new knowledge about the underwater world that can inform decision‐making processes and thus can improve conservation and natural resource management. Still, there is lack of evidence on how telemetry‐derived knowledge can or has informed management, and what factors facilitate or deter its use. We present one of the first quantitative studies related to the science‐action gap and evaluate factors that influence the uptake of fish telemetry findings into policies and practices, as well as social acceptance of these findings. We globally surveyed 212 fish telemetry researchers regarding the knowledge uptake of an applied fish telemetry research project of their choice. Respondents’ personal and professional attributes, as well as the attributes of their chosen projects, were analyzed using machine learning algorithms to identify important factors that influenced the uptake (i.e., use, trust, and/or acceptance) of their findings. Researchers with extensive collaborations and who spent more time engaging in public outreach experienced greater uptake of their findings. Respondents with greater telemetry experience and commitment (e.g., more telemetry publications, higher proportion of research on fish telemetry) tended to achieve more social acceptance of their findings. Projects led by researchers who were highly involved and familiar with the fisheries management processes, and those where greater effort was devoted to research dissemination, also tended to experience greater uptake. Last, the levels of complexity and controversy of the issue addressed by the research project had a positive influence on the uptake of findings. The empirical results of this study support recent messages in the science practitioner literature for greater collaboration, knowledge co‐production with partners, and public engagement to enable the transfer of knowledge and the use of evidence in decision‐making and policies. Scientific organizations should consider shifting reward incentives to promote engagement and collaboration with non‐scientific actors, and perhaps even rethinking hiring practices to consider personal and professional characteristics or attitudes such as altruism and networking skills given the influence of these factors in our model. Last, networks composed of both research and practice potentially have a key role in brokering and facilitating knowledge exchange and actions.

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Collaboration and engagement produce more actionable science: quantitatively analyzing uptake of fish tracking studies

Nguyen

Young

Brownscombe

et al. 2019

Ecological Applications

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“…The idea of public administration shifting into a new paradigm of co-creation is growing across public sector scholars and practitioners (cf. Torfing, Sørensen, and Røiseland 2019;Voorberg, Bekkers, and Tummers 2015). This paradigm, also known as New Public Governance, identifies citizens and other service-users as part of the production process, in which citizens are given more responsibility in the creation of public services (cf.…”

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“…CBIs are emerging in Western countries, apart from the established and institutionalized civil society (Brandsen, Trommel, and Verschuere 2017). These initiatives have been acclaimed for their innovativeness, problem-solving capacity, and legitimacy (Edelenbos and Van Meerkerk 2016;Torfing, Sørensen, and Røiseland 2019).…”

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What explains the performance of community-based initiatives? Testing the impact of leadership, social capital, organizational capacity, and government support

Igalla

Edelenbos

Meerkerk

2019

Public Management Review

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Community-based initiatives (CBIs) are thriving in Western countries. In CBIs, citizens take a leading role in providing public services and goods. CBIs have been acclaimed for their innovativeness, problem-solving capacity, and legitimacy. However, we lack large N studies on performance of CBIs and its antecedents. This article develops and tests a model that identifies relationships between performance and four antecedents by using survey data on CBIs collected in the Netherlands (N = 671). Using structural equation modelling, positive direct and indirect relationships between transformational leadership, boundary spanning leadership, organizational capacity, social capital ties, government support, and performance are found.

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“…Co‐creation platforms harness interaction, production and innovation leverage (Torfing et al ). The precise ambitions of these platforms vary considerably—from the desire to solve a local wicked problem to the goal of bringing about a global transition to sustainability.…”

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Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

Ansell

Miura

2019

Public Administration

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Although not as eye‐catching as their business counterparts, many public and private institutions are currently experimenting with using platforms as a strategy of governance. Governance platforms are now being constructed by a wide array of actors at different geographical scales and across a wide range of issue areas. Although often enabled by digital technology, governance platforms fundamentally embody a new organizing logic to achieve distributed participation and mobilization. While private platforms are transforming the way that companies create and market their products or services and shifting the fundamental logic of how value is produced and appropriated, can this powerful organizing logic be harnessed for public as well as private purposes? We investigate how governance platforms generate powerful effects and survey the extant literature on governance platforms. We conclude that governance platforms do demonstrate promise, although they face a number of challenges.

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Transforming the Public Sector Into an Arena for Co-Creation: Barriers, Drivers, Benefits, and Ways Forward

Cited by 400 publications

References 81 publications

Collaboration and engagement produce more actionable science: quantitatively analyzing uptake of fish tracking studies

Collaboration and engagement produce more actionable science: quantitatively analyzing uptake of fish tracking studies

What explains the performance of community-based initiatives? Testing the impact of leadership, social capital, organizational capacity, and government support

Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

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