Collaborating for Digital Transformation

Edited by Koen Verhoest, Professor of Public Governance and Administration, Department of Political Science and GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Professor of Public and Financial Management, Hertie School, Germany, Lise H. Rykkja, Professor of Political Science/Public Administration, Department of Government, University of Bergen, Norway and Erik Hans Klijn, Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: collaborating for digital transformation in
the public sector 2
Lise H. Rykkja, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Erik Hans Klijn
and Koen Verhoest
2 Digital transformation in the public sector 13
Miriam Lips
3 Intergovernmental collaboration in the context of digital
transformation: state-of-the-art and theoretical notions 31
Gerhard Hammerschmid, Jessica Breaugh and Maike Rackwitz
4 Conditions for successful public-private collaboration for
public service innovation 52
Chesney Callens and Koen Verhoest

PART II INTERGOVERNMENTAL COLLABORATION
FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
5 The coordination of digital government platforms: the role
of administrative tradition and collaboration history 81
Jessica Breaugh and Steven Nõmmik
6 The coordination of smart cities: insights from
a cross-case analysis on the implementation of smart city
strategies 103
Maike Rackwitz and Dries van Doninck
7 Leadership for intergovernmental collaboration towards
digital transformation 124
Maike Rackwitz, Jessica Breaugh and Gerhard Hammerschmid

PART III PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION FOR
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION
8 The design and management of public-private eHealth
partnerships 144
Chesney Callens, Koen Verhoest, Erik Hans Klijn, Lena
Brogaard, Veiko Lember, Vicente Pina and Dries van Doninck
9 Contract management and network management in
public-private eHealth partnerships 168
Chesney Callens and Erik Hans Klijn
10 Viewpoints of collaboration partners on user involvement
in collaborative innovation projects 197
Jaime García-Rayado and Chesney Callens
11 It is all about interaction: network structure, actor
importance, and the relation to innovative outcomes 218
Tom Langbroek and Koen Verhoest

PART IV CONCLUSIONS
12 Collaboration for digital transformation: so much more
than just technology 241
Koen Verhoest, Erik Hans Klijn, Lise H. Rykkja and
Gerhard Hammerschmid

Index