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Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?

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  • Tony Kinder
  • Frédérique Six
  • Jari Stenvall
  • Ally Memon

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The paper challenges the network management perspective of Kooiman (2003) and Klijn and Koppenjan (2014) arguing that complexity in local public service governance now means they are better approached as ecosystems than networks, which are centrally managed. Instead, we note Duit and Galaz’s (2008) idea of flexible governances and, using a reformulated version of Lipsky’s (1980) street-level, synthesize Laclau’s (1990) idea of governance-as-legitimacy with Vygotsky’s (1934) social learning approach and Six’s (2005) trust theory to suggest a new analytical framework. We use the framework to analyse logic-of-practice in services-as-a-system (pulled, personal services).

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  • Tony Kinder & Frédérique Six & Jari Stenvall & Ally Memon, 2022. "Governance-as-legitimacy: are ecosystems replacing networks?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 8-33, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:24:y:2022:i:1:p:8-33
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1786149
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    1. Iheanachor, Nkemdilim & Umukoro, Immanuel & Yela Aránega, Alba, 2023. "Ecosystem emergence in emerging markets: Evidence from the Nigerian digital financial services ecosystem," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).

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