“…Previously restricted to the corporate world, the alternative of collaboration has more recently -starting in the 1990s, approximately -reached government (Sørensen and Torfing, 2007;Klijn, 2008;McGuire and Agranoff, 2011;Denhardt and Denhardt, 2015), with society, public organizations, non-governmental organizations, private and state-owned companies, social movements, universities, research institutes and other institutions acting as partners (Sørensen and Torfing, 2007;Provan and Lemaire, 2012). This has increased the importance of the debate on the governance model of such arrangements (Goldsmith and Eggers, 2004;Klijn and Skelcher, 2007;Provan and Kenis, 2008;Sørensen and Torfing, 2009;Roth et al, 2012;Torfing et al, 2012) and on its relationship to authority, power and hierarchy (Torfing, 2005;Borzel and Panke, 2007;Cristofoli, Markovic and Maneguzzo, 2012;Raab, Mannak and Cambré, 2013). As in the business world, however, an overvaluing of its merits as well as a tendency to minimize its problems and limitations can be detected (Sørensen and Torfing, 2009;Torfing et al, 2012).…”