Leading the co-production process : Who is in charge?
The notion of service co-production is becoming firmly embedded in the contemporary discourse on public service provision. While talking about co-production is rapidly gaining in popularity among policy makers and practitioners, the academic discourse is characterised by significant conceptual gaps despite an ever growing range of case studies of co-production. Of particular concern here is that questions associated with leading service co-production are theoretically and empirically under-developed. This paper makes a contribution towards filling this gap by putting forward a framework for the exploration of leadership in the co-production process. An initial and preliminary application of this framework to case studies of co-production suggests that the citizen co-producer is limited in the way she can enact leadership functions, the regular public service producer appears to be firmly ‘in the lead’ except where citizens are engaged in a process that runs from design, to management and implementation of a service.
Item Type | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Additional information | Hans Schlappa, and Yassaman Imani, 'Leading the co-production process: Who is in charge?', paper presented at the IIAS Study Group Open Meeting, "Coproduction of Public Services", Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 8-9 June 2015. |
Keywords | co-production , relational leadership, distributed leadership, expertise, structure, power and control |
Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 17:01 |
Last Modified | 30 May 2025 23:27 |
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