Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production
The Impact of Fields
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2116497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars Skov Henriksen (0000-0001-9640-2773, Aalborg University, corresponding author), Ane Grubb (0000-0001-8240-8947, Aalborg University), Morten Frederiksen (0000-0001-5550-0537, Aalborg University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279423000624 |
| OpenAlex | W4389393009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
Cross-sector co-production involving voluntary organisations in the production and delivery of social services has been adopted across many welfare states. Economic and demographic changes have led to increased involvement of volunteer initiatives in different welfare policy fields. How different field properties enable, constrain, and shape co-production practices remains, however, under researched. In this article, we address this shortcoming in a comparative case design exploring the practices of co-production within the two fields of elderly services and refugee services. We develop a conceptual framework and demonstrate that differential distribution of resources leads to diverging outcomes and perspectives for co-production. Based on a two-year in-depth study of one large Danish municipality, we find two forms of co-production practices, which reflect different field conditions. In the field of elderly services, co-production takes the form of 'embedded' practices, and in the field of refugee services co-production takes the form of 'exterior' practices. We demonstrate that each of these co-production forms entail ambiguous outcomes and antagonistic positions for voluntary and public sector actors, depending on the policy field
Business · Differential (mechanical device) · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · Public economics · Public relations · Refugee · Social Welfare · Voluntary sector · Welfare · Welfare state · Community Development and Social Impact · Engineering · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Policy and Administration Research
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Local civil society regimes
The Nonprofit sector
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |