Five Evans School faculty members—Sandra Archibald, Joaquín Herranz, Mary Kay Gugerty, Stephen Page, and Craig Thomas— recently gave presentations at a two-day conference on collaborative government at the University of Southern California (USC).
The conference was hosted by the Consortium on Collaborative Governance, a group the Evans School co-founded in 2006 with the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the School of Public Administration at the University of Arizona. The aim of the consortium is to strengthen scholarly research and analysis of effective collaborations among public, private, and nonprofit organizations addressing critical issues in the world.
Presentations by the five Evans School faculty members included closing remarks by Sandra O. Archibald and:
- “Multisectoral Network Adaptation” by Joaquín Herranz, an examination of how public, private, and nonprofit networks adapt to external changes in policy and the economy
- “Signaling Virture: Nonprofit Accountability” by Mary Kay Gugerty, an illustration how nonprofits structure voluntary programs in order to solve collective action problems and create signals of quality for key stakeholders
- "Accountability for Public Value: Rethinking the Relationships between Collaborative Governance and the New Public Management" by Stephen Page, a proposal of measures for four tactics leaders use to enable collaborative governance as well as measures of three types of results that successful collaboration might produce
- "Evaluating the Performance of Collaborative Environmental Governance" by Craig Thomas, a review of the current state of research on collaborative governance with suggestions on ways to design research studies that test the links between collaborative processes and environmental outcomes
For more information and to download the papers and presentation slides, visit the conference’s website.
Published on May 15, 2008
