From Service Contracting to Collaborative Governance: Evolution of Government-Nonprofit Relations

International Perspectives on Strengthening Government-Nonprofit Relations: Are Compacts

University and industry: From contracting relations to strategic partnerships; providing strategic role model in university-society relations

Establishing sustainable and effective interactions between university and society has always been a concern for higher education system. However, these interactions have always been challenged for various reasons. The reasons can be attributed to the type of attitudes toward the roles a university plays in interaction with industry, the lack of value-added strategic interactions with industry,...

From Government to Governance—And Back? Understanding the Changing Role of Government in Governance

Contracting-out and governance mechanisms in the public employment service

The contracting-out of job brokerage and case management services is a major international trend in the reform of the Public Employment Service. Instead of a public agency, private providers are contracted to deliver these services for the jobseekers. Australia and the Netherlands have contracted-out (almost) all of this formerly core public service. The U.K. has introduced so-called Employment...

Governance as a Service for Collaborative Environment

In a highly competitive and collaborative network environment, enterprises have to focus on their core competencies and to increase internal and external collaboration to provide more efficient services to meet various needs of markets. However, governance is still one of the most important challenges for collaborative enterprises. Some studies on collaborative networks just focus on technologi...