Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X231152889
Keywords
Complex problem-solving; inter-organizational collaboration; intra-organizational collaboration; supra-organizational collaboration; multilevel governance
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This article presents a case study of urban regeneration to demonstrate the collaborative relationships at different organizational levels and their mutual influence, showing a bigger collaborative landscape. The study reveals that understanding and synchronizing collaborations on all three levels is an effective way to increase the problem-solving capacity of inter-organizational collaboration.
Collaboration between organizations is generally seen as a pre-requisite for dealing with complex problems, but such efforts appear to be inherently difficult and often disappoint expectations regarding their problem-solving capacity. In this article we add to the existing literature by taking a systemic, landscape perspective on collaborative success and failure. Using a case study of urban regeneration in the Dutch Randstad conurbation, we show that when practitioners aim to collaborate on an inter-organizational level (between organizations), they also need to collaborate productively on intra-organizational (between teams) and supra-organizational (between coalitions) levels. We investigate the tense relationships within and among these levels, and highlight what happens in-between, thereby picturing a bigger collaborative landscape. Drawing on interviews and participant observation we reveal horizontal and vertical practices of in-betweening within and between each level. These practices are a promising way to overcome difficulties that may surface on the inter-organizational level but are influenced by the two other levels. Understanding and synchronizing collaborations on all three levels is presented as an effective way to increase the problem-solving capacity of inter-organizational collaboration.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available