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Challenges to Effective Co-production of Public Services and Outcomes

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This chapter considers a range of challenges to effective co-production, including the barriers faced in implementing and scaling successful co-production initiatives, the risks involved in co-production and strategies for dealing with them, the contribution of co-production to the whole system resilience network, the motivation of citizen co-producers, leadership for co-production and the potential for negative consequences from co-production. A change management tool is analysed in detail, as an approach for dealing with the challenges which co-production must address.

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Loeffler, E. (2021). Challenges to Effective Co-production of Public Services and Outcomes. In: Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55509-2_5

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