Shapers or schemers of collaborative governance: network management in England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships

Kate Broadhurst; Nigel Berkeley; Jennifer Ferreira

doi:10.1080/03003930.2021.1895769

Shapers or schemers of collaborative governance: network management in England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships

Kate Broadhurst
, Nigel Berkeley
, Jennifer Ferreira

Loughborough University

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Abstract

The coordination of inter-organisational networks is key to their success and yet partnership management in the context of regional economic development remains a complex and ambiguous process. To address this lack of understanding this article reviews the extant literature on brokerage and network coordination to present a theoretical framework comprising three propositions of the benefits of a private sector influence over the management and coordination of multi- organisational economic development partnerships. The propositions are then explored through a qualitative study of those tasked with the role of leading the management of Local Enterprise Partnerships in England. The findings conversely reveal a reliance on the public sector to lead the framing and mobilisation of these networks and questions whether the policy shift has resulted in truly collaborative governance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	253-273
Number of pages	21
Journal	Local Government Studies
Volume	49
Issue number	2
Early online date	4 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.1895769
Publication status	Published - 4 Mar 2023

Bibliographical note

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Local Government Studies. Broadhurst, K, Berkeley, N & Ferreira, J 2021, 'Shapers or schemers of collaborative governance: network management in England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships', Local Government Studies, vol. (In-Press), pp. (In-Press).
It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Local Enterprise Partnerships
Networks
brokerage
collaboration
public sector

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Development
Sociology and Political Science

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