Frontmatter -- Advance Praise for Banking Associations: Their Role and Impact in a Time of Market Change -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Research and Methodology -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: About Banking Associations -- Chapter 1 Knowing Banking Associations -- Chapter 2 Roles and...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction to the Collaboration Journey for Innovation -- Chapter 1 Knowledge and Innovation are Decentralized -- Chapter 2 Connecting Local Ecosystems to Create a Virtual Global Ecosystem -- Chapter 3 Collaboration with Academia,...

Public service innovation, defined as the adoption of new technology and methods of service delivery, is at the heart of public management research. Scholars have long studied public and private sector innovation as distinctive phenomena, arguing that private sector innovation aims to increase...

Traditionally, performance metrics and data have been used to hold organizations accountable. But public service provision is not merely hierarchical anymore. Increasingly, we see partnerships among government agencies, private or nonprofit organizations, and civil society groups. Such...

Communities across the United States face a variety of vexing and intractable problems that are not easily - or quickly - solved by any one organization or sector. Rather, partners must work together over time to address these shared priorities. It also requires an individual and collective...