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List of Content Acknowledgements .................................................................................................... 7 Preface ........................................................................................................................ 9 Chapter 1 ...................................................................................................................... 10 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 10 Collaborative governance – potentials and problems in theory and practice .......... 11 Empirical cases of collaborative governance practice in Denmark ......................... 16 Research Questions .................................................................................................. 18 The purposes of the study ........................................................................................ 20 Developing the approach: Inspirations and key concepts ........................................ 21 Contributions of the dissertation .............................................................................. 23 Structuring the dissertation ...................................................................................... 24 References ................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 2 ...................................................................................................................... 32 Empirical Setting ......................................................................................................... 32 Shared problems of quality management in the daycare sector ............................... 34 Local QMI projects: work processes and results ..................................................... 41 Table 1: QMI collaborations ................................................................................. 42 Figure 1: A governance lab at a daycare .............................................................. 44 Figure 2: The conference backdrop of the partnership ......................................... 46 Table 2: Local collaborative governance practices .............................................. 49 Figure 3: Daycare marketplace ............................................................................. 51 Summarizing notes ................................................................................................... 52 References ................................................................................................................ 55 2 Chapter 3 ..................................................................................................................... 57 Literature Review: Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice ...................... 57 The field of collaborative governance – definitions and models ............................ 60 The new role of the manager in collaborative governance ...................................... 65 Managing and organizing practices: socially dynamics, tensions and powers ....... 67 Summarizing notes: positioning present study ........................................................ 72 References ................................................................................................................ 75 Chapter 4 ..................................................................................................................... 79 Theoretical Inspirations & Analytical Strategy .......................................................... 79 Organizational discourse studies – basic inspirations and debates ......................... 82 Central definitions: Discourse, practice, and materiality ........................................ 85 Developing the approach: Analytical conceptualizing ............................................ 91 Analyzing the role of public managers ................................................................ 91 Analyzing the organizing of collaborative governance ....................................... 95 Summarizing notes: An analytical strategy for a complex-sensitive approach ...... 99 References .............................................................................................................. 102 Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................... 108 Methodology, Data Collection & Analysis ............................................................... 108 Methodological considerations .............................................................................. 109 Research design: Discourse-based and ethnographic approaches ......................... 110 Case construction: Multi-site fieldwork and field access .................................. 115 Interviews: Single and groups ............................................................................ 117 Variations of participant observations................................................................ 119 Developing methods for multiple modes of actors, practices, and sites ............ 123 Data collection and sources ................................................................................... 125 Table 3: Data collection timeline and total data set ........................................... 126 3 Data management ................................................................................................... 134 From data management to analysis ........................................................................ 135 Figure 3: Analytical process, example from article 2 ......................................... 140 Returning to the role of the researcher: Potentials and problems .......................... 142 References .............................................................................................................. 145 Article 1 ..................................................................................................................... 149 Studying complexities of collaboration ................................................................. 149 Abstract .................................................................................................................