Governing Complexity in Times of Turbulence

Edited by Jarle Trondal, Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Department of Political Science and Management & CeDiT, University of Agder, Norway and Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Robyn Keast, Professor, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, David Noble, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University, Australia and Rómulo Pinheiro, Professor of Public Policy and Administration, University of Agder, Norway

‘Unpredictability, uncertainty and rapidly, drastically changing governance problems – in short: turbulence – challenge public organizations. This important edited volume discusses how public organizations respond to turbulence, both within their environment and within the organizations themselves. The empirical chapters provide fascinating insights into reactions within different policy fields and illustrate key organizational responses, centered on design, agency power and resilience.’

• Contents:Foreword xiiiPreface xviPART I SETTING THE STAGE1 Governing complexity in times of turbulence 2Jarle Trondal, Rómulo Pinheiro, Robyn Keast and David Noble2 Complexity, resilience and public governance in times ofturbulence 13Jarle Trondal, Rómulo Pinheiro, Robyn Keast and David NoblePART II DESIGN3 Transformative ideas, sturdy organizations: varieties ofartificial intelligence policy in the Nordics 32Frans af Malmborg and Jarle Trondal4 Public–private partnership (PPP) in the context ofEuropean Union policy initiatives on critical infrastructureprotection (CIP) from cyber attacks 53Marzio Di Feo and Luigi Martino5 Policy innovation and organizational design: connectingtheory and practice 79Jarle TrondalPART III AGENCY6 Project sustainability and complex environments: the roleof relationship networks and collaborative agency 101Amanda Scott, Robyn Keast, Geoff Woolcott, DanielChamberlain and Deborah Che7 Governing complexity: the public organizations’ shift indigital transformation 126Dominika Ewa Harasimiuk and Tomasz Braun8 The race to institutional change: the slow road to policychange in sexuality education 145Elisa Bordin and Rómulo PinheiroPART IV POWER9 Power dynamics in multisector and multilevelcoordination: the case of antimicrobial resistance 169Martin Stangborli Time10 Into the fray: conflict resolution in on-line environments 191Jennifer WaterhousePART V RESILIENCE11 How collaboration antecedents affect the resilience of localgovernance networks 216Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek12 Turbulence within and beyond resilience in publicorganizations: a study of Italian opera theatres 238Maria Laura Frigotto and Francesca FrigottoPART VI EPILOGUE13 Towards a research and policy agenda for governing complexity 260Robyn Keast, Christine Flynn, David Noble, Jarle Trondaland Rómulo PinheiroIndex