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Managing the hollow state Collaboration and contracting

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  • H. Brinton Milward
  • Keith Provan

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This article presents what the authors have learned about managing networks of public, private and nonprofit service providers in the context of decentralized and devolved governmental regimes - what the authors have termed the hollow state. The characteristics of the hollow state are discussed along with two strategies for managing networks of organizations that jointly produce a public service - collaboration and contracting. The article revisits the authors' preliminary theory of network effectiveness, based on a four-city study of mental health in light of an evolutionary study conducted on one city's mental health system over four years.

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  • H. Brinton Milward & Keith Provan, 2003. "Managing the hollow state Collaboration and contracting," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 1-18, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:5:y:2003:i:1:p:1-18
    DOI: 10.1080/1461667022000028834
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