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Partnerships : Machines of possibility /

How did partnerships come to emerge almost everywhere and at almost the same time? What is the inner logic of partnerships? And at what point does that logic begin to break down? This book improves our understanding of the shifting ground on which partnerships and agreements must be reached in today...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andersen, Niels Åkerstrom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Partnerships; Contents; List of tables and figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Analytical strategy; 2. Articulating partnerships; 3. Outsourcing limits; 4. Contracts and relationality; 5. Contracts as communication; Form of contracts; Contract and functional differentiation; 6. Partnerships as second-order contracts; 7. Partnerships as tentative structural coupling; 8. Partnerships as second-order organisations; Conclusion; References; Index.