Processes of governance across multiple stakeholders : performance, control and innovation : an introduction

This ebook explores governance as a process - a trend emerging in response to the need to control and coordinate inter-organizational forms around a shared purpose. The increasing prevalence of organizational forms such as inter-organizational networks, alliances and public-private partnerships is increasingly challenging the practice of governance to move away from a traditional focus on structure. Given the often temporary and highly flexible nature of these relationships, it is not likely that governance by compliance to government regulation is suitable, particularly as many of these arran