Collaborative Management in Local Public Administration: Integrative Consolidation

Abstract

Collaborative public management has emerged in few decades in public sector and public administration is moving from responsiveness to collaboration. The data is collected from local public administrators working in local public administration services organizations (n = 150), a survey of local public managers in Pakistan is conducted to determine the frequency of collaborative management regarding the practice services. The study results suggest a favorable view of collaborative management from local administrators’ point of views and are coupled with a series of cautionary assertions with from existing research. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of findings practitioners and for future research on collaborative management.

Keywords: collaborative management, services consolidation, resources sharing, management competency.