Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations: Examining Collaborative Performance Regimes and Collaborative...

Area of Science:

• Public Administration
• Organizational Studies
• Health Services Research

Background:

• Collaborative governance is widely adopted but performance management remains difficult.
• Existing research identifies performance measures but lacks focus on performance routines.
• Effective collaboration requires structured routines for goal setting, information exchange, and progress evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

• To conceptualize collaborative performance regimes by integrating collaborative governance and performance management.
• To examine the role of collaborative performance summits as key routines within these regimes.
• To provide a framework for understanding the dynamics between regimes and summits in public health collaborations.

Main Methods:

• Conceptual development integrating theories from collaborative governance and performance management.
• Case study analysis of three local public health collaborations.
• Focus on the specific routine of organizing collaborative performance summits.

Main Results:

• Introduced the concept of collaborative performance regimes: routines for explicating goals, exchanging performance information, examining progress, and exploring improvement actions.
• Highlighted collaborative performance summits as critical routines for reviewing joint performance and enabling regime change.
• Demonstrated the practical application of the framework in understanding real-world public health collaborations.

Conclusions:

• Collaborative performance regimes provide a valuable framework for managing and improving collaborative efforts.
• Performance summits are crucial mechanisms for both manifesting and evolving collaborative performance regimes.
• Understanding the interplay between regimes and summits is essential for enhancing the effectiveness of inter-organizational collaborations.