In Pursuit of Inter-Agency Collaboration In The Public Sector

Abstract

Abstract Although long seen as desirable, inter-agency collaboration has remained conceptually elusive and difficult to achieve. Whilst recognising that there are other positions, this article takes the normative position that collaboration is generally a 'good thing'. It brings together strands of theoretical, conceptual and empirical literature from diverse disciplines in 'order to better understand inter-agency collaboration as a concept and as a process, This is developed into a sequentially structured framework capable of being customised to a range of organisational and policy contexts. Keywords: Collaborative endeavourframework for collaborationinter-agency collaborationpublic sectorthe role of theory