PADM 804
Case Study Assignment Instructions
Overview
You will complete 6 Case Study Assignments throughout this course. Below you will find the instructions and description assignment.
Instructions
· Provide a Biblically based support for your analysis
· Sources must be derived from Read items assigned for the Module: Week in which the Case Study is assigned, peer-reviewed journal articles, and your independent research.
· All citations and format must be in current APA format
· Include 8 – 10 sources, not including your Biblical analysis
· Double-spaced, with 1-inch margins, written in 12-point Times New Roman font.
Below is a chart with each Case Study Assignment and the Module: Week it is due.
| Title of Assignment | Module: Week |
| Case Study: NASA Collaborative Transformation Assignment | Module 5: Week 5 |
Case Study: NASA Collaborative Transformation Assignment
During and before the Apollo program years at NASA, it was the primary government organization involved in all space technology decisions. Since the Space Shuttle Program, NASA has been reinvented. It transformed from a closed system with a hierarchy that develops its technologies internally, to an open and collaborative network that promotes innovation and collaboration with other public and private organizations. NASA has become more interdependent.
Using the Moon to Mars Mission (Artemis-Orion), describe this new collaborative approach at NASA.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
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Collaborative Governance Networks Literature: A Thematic Analysis
PADM 804 Intergovernmental Relations and Intergovernmental Management
Permission granted by Professor Goktug Morcol, Penn State University-Harrisburg
Presented at the ASPA Conference 2019
Questions Professor Morcol Asked • What has been the general trend in publications about collaborative governance
networks?
• What were the most popular areas in the collaborative governance networks applications?
• What were the leading countries in collaborative governance networks applications?
• Which journals published papers on collaborative networks?
• Which theories, if any, did the collaborative governance network researchers used?
• What were the general methodologies and analytical methods used by researchers?
Data Collection Source and Method • We present the preliminary findings of our content analyses of the scholarly
articles on “collaborative governance networks” (CGN).
• We collected articles from ProQuest.
• In our searches, we used the following keywords: • Collaborative governance • Collaborative network • Governance network • Network governance • Collaborative public management • Collaborative public administration
Data Collection and Source for Analyses • Our searches yielded:
• 1532 scholarly articles published in English, between 1977 and 2017. • We found other sources (books, dissertations, government
publication, newspaper articles, etc.) too, but we excluded them from our analyses.
• Of the 1532 articles, we have read/analyzed 644 so far. • Of the 644, we found 619 relevant to be included in our analyses.
• The remaining 25 articles either did not include sufficient information or they were misidentified (e.g., they were initially selected because they included the names of professional networks)
• We read and coded the titles and abstracts of the papers and the journals they were published in. • The following analyses are the results of our analyses of these fields in the
spreadsheet.
General Trend in Publications on CGN
• CGN publications increased significantly in the 21st century.
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Most Popular Areas of CGN Applications: 1977-2017 Frequency Percent
Environment/Ecology 59 17.5 Health 56 16.6 Local Gov/Urban/Community 42 12.5 Water resources 38 11.3 Public Adm/Public Policy/Pol Science (General) 30 8.9
Education 26 7.7 Natural Resources/Common Pool Resources/Fisheries 18 5.3
Democracy/Participation 16 4.7 Libraries 14 4.2 Social/Human Services 11 3.3 Author/Research Networks 8 2.4 Emergency/Disaster Management 7 2.1 Europe/European Union 6 1.8 E-government/Social Media 6 1.8 Total 337 100 Unidentified 282 Total Reviewed 619
Most Popular Areas in the 20th and 21st Centuries
1977 – 1999 2000-2017
Frequency Percent Frequency Percent
1. Libraries 10 20.8 1. Environment/Ecology 59 10.3
2. Health 8 16.7 2. Health 48 8.4
3. Author/Research networks 3 6.3 3. Local Gov/Urban 37 6.5
4. Business/Financial 5 10.4 4. Water resources 35 6.1
5. Water resources 3 6.3 5. Business/Financial 34 6
6. Biology/Biotech 2 4.2 6. Pub Adm/Pub Pol/ Pol Sci general 30 5.3
7. IT/Telecom 1 2.1 7. IT/Telecom 23 4
8. Local Gov/Urban 5 10.4 8. Education 23 4
9. Education 3 6.3 9. Natural res/Common pool/Fisheries 18 3.2
10. Organizations (general) 1 2.1 10. Democracy/Participation 16 2.8
Evolution of the Top-5 Areas in the 20th Century
Geographical Distribution of Publications (Countries in which Studies were Conducted)
• Total number of countries: 43
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Top Countries Since 1990
US UK Canada Australia Netherlands China S. Korea
Geographical Distribution of Publications by Decade
• US has been the leader since the 1990s.
• US has been followed by UK, Canada, and Australia.
• The Netherlands, China, South Korea, and Brazil joined the top group and increased their percentages in the 21st
century.
Journals that Publish CGN Papers (1977-2017)
• Total number of journals: 452 (619 papers) • The publications seem to be dispersed
among journals. • But there is some concentration in a few
journals.
• The top three journals (PAR, JPART, ARPA) are the public administration journals with the highest impact factors in recent years.
Journals that Published 4 or More Papers Frequency Percent
Public Administration Review 20 3.2 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
12 1.9
American Review of Public Administration 11 1.7 Ecology and Society 8 1.3
Public Administration 6 1 International Journal of Public Administration 5 0.8 Public Organization Review 5 0.8 Administrative Theory & Praxis 4 0.6 Environmental Management 4 0.6 Environmental Science & Policy 4 0.6 International Review of Public Administration 4 0.6 National Civic Review 4 0.6 Policy studies 4 0.6 Public Management Review 4 0.6 Public Manager 4 0.6 Urban Studies 4 0.6
Top Publishers of CGN Papers by Decade 1977 – 2017
• Library science and organization journals were the primary outlets in the 20th century.
• Public administration and ecology journals took the lead in the 21st century.
2000 – 2017
Theory in the CGN Literature Is the CGN literature a-theoretical? • Papers in the 1970s and 1980s were a-theoretical. • Researchers began to use theories in the 1990s. • Even then only 20-25% of the papers used some theory.
Decade Total
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Is there a theory
No theory Count 5 6 29 240 204 484
% within Decade 100.0% 100.0% 78.4% 78.7% 76.7% 78.2%
Theory Count 0 0 8 65 62 135
% within Decade 0.0% 0.0% 21.6% 21.3% 23.3% 21.8%
Total Count 5 6 37 305 266 619
% within Decade 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Theory in the CGN Literature
• We defined “theory” broadly: conceptual frameworks and well-developed theories.
• Even then, we could identify 88 articles (our of 619) that used some theory.
• The most frequently used theories are actually conceptual frameworks: • Collaborative governance • Governance networks • Democratic decision-
making/participation • Complexity/complex systems
Frequency Percent of Total Number
of Articles
Collaborative governance 23 3.7
Governance networks/Network governance 15 2.4
Democratic decision making/Participation 11 1.8
Complexity/Complex governance/Complex systems 7 1.1
Leadership 4 0.6
Institutional/Neo-institutional theory 4 0.6
Social capital 3 0.5
Transaction-cost economics 3 0.5
Constructionism/Social constructionism 3 0.5
Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework (Ostrom) 3 0.5
Social-ecological systems (SES) framework (Ostrom) 3 0.5
Diffusion of innovations 2 0.3
Neoliberalism 1 0.2
Actor network theory 1 0.2
Regime theory 1 0.2
Ethical theory 1 0.2
Evolutionary theory/Path dependence 1 0.2
Game theory 1 0.2
Liberation psychology 1 0.2
Total 88 14.2
Larger total of those that used theory 135
Total Number of Articles in Study 619 100.0
General Methodological Approach by Decade
• Case studies have been the most prominent methodological approach.
• Literature reviews declined over time.
• Conceptual discussions became more prevent in recent decades.
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Total Case study 33.3% 35.1% 17.7% 18.4% 19.1% Conceptual discussion 13.5% 5.9% 10.9% 8.4% Literature review 40.0% 33.3% 5.4% 3.6% 3.8% 4.4% Interviews 2.3% 6.4% 3.9% Case study (Comparative) 2.7% 3.6% 3.8% 3.6% Survey 2.7% 2.0% 3.8% 2.7% Mixed Methods 1.0% 2.3% 1.5% Model Development 1.3% 1.9% 1.5% Experimental/Quasi- Experimental
2.7% 1.0% 0.4% 0.8%
Meta-analysis 0.7% 0.3% Grounded Theory 0.7% 0.3% Ethnography 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% Focus Groups 0.7% 0.3% Action Research 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% Qualitative (Unspecified) 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% Best practices 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% Game Theory 0.4% 0.2% Panel Design 0.4% 0.2% Unclear 20.0% 16.7% 8.1% 5.2% 9.4% 7.4% Unspecified 40.0% 16.7% 29.7% 53.1% 36.8% 44.3%
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Analytical Methods Used by Researchers
• Very few paper abstracts specified their analytical methods.
• SNA, regression, content analysis, and agent-based simulations are the most prominent analytical methods.
Method Frequency Percent Social Network Analysis 10 1.6
Regression Analyses 7 1.1
Content Analysis 7 1.1
Agent-Based Simulations 5 0.8
Narrative Analysis 4 0.6
Factor/Principal Components Analysis 1 0.2
Survival Analysis/Hazard Model 1 0.2
Cluster Analysis 1 0.2
Mapping/GIS 1 0.2
None Specified 582 94.0
Total 619 100.0
Summary of Findings • CGN publications increased significantly in the 21st century.
• The most popular areas of CGN applications are environment/ecology, healthcare management/policy, local government/urban studies, and water resources management.
• The leading countries in CGN applications are the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia. • Others joined them in the 21st century.
• CGN papers have been published mainly in the leading public administration and ecology journals.
• Only 20-25% of CGN papers used any kind of theory. • Most of these are actually conceptual frameworks.
• The largest numbers of papers are single and comparative case studies and conceptual discussions.
• Very few papers used analytical methods. • The most frequently applied methods are social network analysis,
regression analyses, and content analyses.
Thank you.
Comments? Questions?
- Collaborative Governance Networks Literature: �A Thematic Analysis
- Questions Professor Morcol Asked
- Data Collection Source and Method
- Data Collection and Source for Analyses
- General Trend in Publications on CGN
- Most Popular Areas of CGN Applications: 1977-2017
- Most Popular Areas in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Evolution of the Top-5 Areas in the 20th Century
- Geographical Distribution of Publications (Countries in which Studies were Conducted)
- Geographical Distribution of Publications by Decade
- Journals that Publish CGN Papers (1977-2017)
- �Top Publishers of CGN Papers by Decade�
- Theory in the CGN Literature
- Theory in the CGN Literature
- �General Methodological Approach by Decade�
- Analytical Methods Used by Researchers
- Summary of Findings
- Slide Number 18
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