.... Strategic planning Public value Qualitative comparative analysis Public networks Inter-municipal cooperation Local government Small local governments increasingly face complex service demands under limited administrative capacity, fiscal stress and rising societal expectations (Bryson et al...

... of these networks and thus the sustainability and effectiveness of the collaboration over time. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how mandated specifications affect the formation of public networks. Design/methodology/approach Four networks of healthcare providers were selected and studied from...

... and the shifts therein.” IMC has also been investigated in the literature as an example of public network governance. Public networks could be defined as “more or less stable patterns of social relations between mutually dependent actors formed around policy problems and/or clusters of means and which...