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Practical implications: Increasing the metagovernance capacity

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Chapter 6 concluded that metagovernance played an important role in the five investigated cases, and that public managers acting as metagovernors had a characteristic logic of action. We will now discuss the practical implications of the concept of metagovernance for public managers, regarding three themes. Chapter 6 proposed that willingness, discretion and capability are three main qualifications for metagovernors. It is desirable to improve them, by increasing the willingness to take multiple perspectives, by optimising the level of discretion, and by selecting and training managers with metagovernance capabilities. This is addressed in Section 7.1.

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(2008). Practical implications: Increasing the metagovernance capacity. In: Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets. Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2054-6_7

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