Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks
Research type: Journal article
Related capability: Digital government consultancy
Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks
Authors: Stijn Wouters, MarijnJanssen, Veiko Lember, Joep Crompvoets

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Journal: Government Information Quarterly
Publication date: 11 September, 2022
ISBN/ISSN: 0740-624X
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2022.101779
Publisher: ScienceDirect
Year: 2022

Abstract

Public administrations are increasingly relying on collaboration within inter-organizational networks to coordinate the development and provisioning of integrated digital public services. Collaboration strategies are necessary to focus collaborative efforts, align and prioritize goals, and leverage concrete results that advance integrated service delivery (ISD). However, literature on inter-organizational collaboration strategies for integrated service delivery is scarce. This research identifies collaboration strategies in three qualitative case studies in Belgium. The cases present 33 collaboration strategies categorized into engagement, motivation, and joint action strategies. Collaboration strategies should complement each other. Together these strategies can help to overcome the adoption paradox, one of the key issues to advance ISD, which refers to service providers not being inclined to adopt an ISD unless it has many users, but users might not be willing to use and ISD before many service providers have adopted it. Policy-makers can use the identified collaboration strategies to advance integrated service delivery.

How to cite

Wouters, Stijn, Marijn Janssen, Veiko Lember, and Joep Crompvoets. “Strategies to Advance the Dream of Integrated Digital Public Service Delivery in Inter-Organizational Collaboration Networks.” Government Information Quarterly, November 9, 2022, 101779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2022.101779.

Keywords

Digital government, interoperability, public service transformation

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Joep Crompvoets
Chief procurement director (CPO) and principal research scientist

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