Representation and Collaboration: Exploring the Role of Shared Identity in the Collaborative Process

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Conner, Thaddieus W.
• 署名单位: New Mexico State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12413
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 288-301
• 关键词: active representation; managerial networking; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; policy design; GENDER; performance; bureaucracy; governance; POLITICS

摘要

Public managers must regularly engage and interact with stakeholders in the external environment to deliver meaningful policy outcomes. Examining the motivations behind such behavior is a critical component of understanding management in the modern era. Some studies suggest that actors with similar interests are more likely to form collaborative partnerships. Using an original mail survey of 150 American Indian education directors in public school districts, this article examines how shared identity and individual attitudes affect levels of interaction with Native American communities. Findings suggest that public school officials who share both a racial and a tribal/co-ethnic identity with Native American nations in their service area have higher levels of interaction with these groups than public school officials who are either members of Native American nations outside their service area or non-Indian. This research has broad implications for incorporating theories of representation and social construction into our understanding of collaboration.