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The act of two or more organizations voluntarily working together through a joint combination of personnel, resources, and information toward a common purpose, mutual benefit, or shared objective.
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The demands of the modern public environment often require pluralistic solutions. The increasing magnitude of public problems may extend these demands beyond individual organizations, and the programs and services that are designed to address such problems frequently compel the inclusion of multiple actors. The integration of public issues across institutions of various levels of government, nonprofit, and private entities has produced an atmosphere of cooperative necessity toward mutually beneficial outcomes. Organizational collaboration represents a means by which public organizations may pursue alternative options for policy, program, and service delivery that harness the...
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Janousek, C.L. (2016). Organizational Collaboration. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_19-1
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