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The article presents the discussion on depth of understanding of multiple social science disciplines, theories, and research traditions extending beyond the field of public administration. Topics include phenomena being attached to the value and purpose as well as the creation and distribution of a great range of public services and public goods; and investigating individual motivation, cognition, and behavior, group dynamics and performance, institutions, and organizational development.

Kumanan Rasanathan and colleagues argue that the potential of multisectoral collaboration for improving health remains untapped in many low- and middle-income countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adaptation and the adaptive capacity of human and environmental systems have been of central concern to natural and social science scholars, many of whom characterize and promote the need for collaborative cross-boundary systems that are seen as flexible and adaptive by definition. Researchers who study collaborative governance systems in the public administration, planning and policy literature have paid less attention to adaptive capacity specifically and institutional adaptation in general. This paper bridges the two literatures and finds four common dimensions of capacity, including structural arrangements, leadership, knowledge and learning, and resources. In this paper, we focus on institutional adaptation in the context of collaborative governance regimes and try to clarify and distinguish collaborative capacity from adaptive capacity and their contributions to adaptive action. We posit further that collaborative capacities generate associated adaptive capacities thereby enabling institutional adaptation within collaborative governance regimes. We develop these distinctions and linkages between collaborative and adaptive capacities with the help of an illustrative case study in watershed management within the National Estuary Program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG) considering competing logics of probability such as social science and possibility like management practice.