Editorial

Abstract

The challenges to innovate in public management manifest constantly, especially in this time of greater disbelief in the possibilities of the governments to meet public demands. In this context, it emerges an urgent need of short-term and creative responses.The citizens' frustrations bring to the academic milieu the responsibility to rethink the administration. In this sense, RAP selects relevant contributions from scholars of the field, who are focused on producing and analyzing new ideas to improve alternative actions in the public sector.The last decades have been fruitful for innovation in public management, mainly because of the advance of collaborative strategies.Through a variety of analyses, the articles in this issue build on a common concern regarding collaborative dimensions, with examples of modern relationships of the public administration with nonprofit organizations and the private sector.The idea of collaboration -increasingly pronounced and practiced in the public sector -has proven to be promising in a world where management practices, when gathered, can deliver much more than when they are isolated.