Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.58235/sjpa.2023.16429
Lena Högberg
Boundary spanners and boundary spanning activities have been established as key to enabling cross-sector collaboration. By means of a longitudinal study and a process approach to collaboration, the paper offers a novel perspective on interrelated acts of sensemaking and framing whereby boundary spanners representing different organisations and sectors deal with organisational and institutional differences when collaborating. The study focuses on Crossroads, an initiative aimed at addressing an emerging societal problem through cross-sector collaboration including the establishment of a Civil Society Public Partnership (CSPP). To establish and develop the CSPP, multiple boundary spanners representing different organisations and roles interact in a process of continuous negotiation of frames and meaning. The paper elucidates the implications of successive boundary spanning in cross-sector collaboration by highlighting the importance of reticulism, interactive framing, shared commitment, reflexivity, and adaptability.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.58235/sjpa.2023.16429
Lena Högberg
Boundary spanners and boundary spanning activities have been established as key to enabling cross-sector collaboration. By means of a longitudinal study and a process approach to collaboration, the paper offers a novel perspective on interrelated acts of sensemaking and framing whereby boundary spanners representing different organisations and sectors deal with organisational and institutional differences when collaborating. The study focuses on Crossroads, an initiative aimed at addressing an emerging societal problem through cross-sector collaboration including the establishment of a Civil Society Public Partnership (CSPP). To establish and develop the CSPP, multiple boundary spanners representing different organisations and roles interact in a process of continuous negotiation of frames and meaning. The paper elucidates the implications of successive boundary spanning in cross-sector collaboration by highlighting the importance of reticulism, interactive framing, shared commitment, reflexivity, and adaptability.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.58235/sjpa.2023.12541
Charlotte Kiland, Tor-Ivar Karlsen, G. Kvåle
In this study, we examine how organisational conditions impact boundary spanning in public health to handle complex tasks. This policy field is characterised by extensive pressure for collaborative governance and boundary-spanning activities. Data from a 2019 web-based survey of all Norwegian public health coordinators (n = 428; response rate 60%) demonstrated the importance of boundary spanning “by architecture” for completing complex transboundary tasks, such as local government health overviews. Combinations of organisational conditions; organisational size, position size, position in the organisational hierarchy and formalised network arrangements, affected degrees of boundary-spanning and the ability to complete health overviews. The most important indirect organisational condition seemed to be position size. Organisational size is an important organisational predictor for position size, position in the organisational hierarchy and collaborative partners’ contact pattern. Large municipalities had higher coordination capacity, higher degrees of boundary spanning and more formalised structures for intersectoral collaboration. Organisational size correlated significantly with contact frequency between boundary spanners and internal and external professional expertise. Overall, boundary spanning is not influential per se, but different degrees of boundary spanning affected the completion of complicated transboundary task in public health.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.58235/sjpa.2023.10975
Magnus Hoppe, Mattias Berglund, Jacob Annerfors, Victoria Bodén, Emma Mossberg, Malin Sturk, Åsa Sundgren Häggberg, Jonas Welander
There is a need to explore new forms and organizations of service deliveries as public organizations are pressed between financial constraints and increased societal demands. The organization of public value creation through co-production has become a topic and this paper addresses the question of how public organizations can adapt to include citizens as co-producers of public values. To answer it an inductive and co-productive design was chosen where a collective author/analyst was formed, consisting of academics and public servants. The analysis revolves around the public servants' accounts of how their organizations approach the co-production of public values. The article concludes local governments' public organizations appear as willing but quite unable to adapt to a situation where citizens are treated as equal partners in the co-production of public values. Public sector organizations might thus need help to take lead in the change they claim to be striving for. If not, their intended involvement may not be realized as actual involvement.
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