Collaborating to Manage

Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era wheregovernment must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies towork together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoffexamines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grantsand regulation management, purchase-of-service contracting, networking, public/nonprofit partnerships and other lateral arrangements in the context of thechanging public agency. As he steers the reader through various ways of coping withsuch organizational richness, Agranoff offers a deeper look at public management inan era of shared public program responsibility withingovernance. Geared toward professionals workingwith the new bureaucracy and for students who will pursue careers in the public ornon-profit sectors, Collaborating to Manage is astudent-friendly book that contains many examples of real-world practices, lessonsfrom successful cases, and summaries of key principles for collaborative publicmanagement