01281pab a2200169 454500 180718b2012 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ryan, Bill Co-production: Option or obligation? 2012 p.314-324. Sep Co-production is an idea being discussed in the international public management literature but less so in New Zealand and Australia. Co-production rejects the idea of service delivery to passive users, proposing instead they be treated as active participants in the production of outcomes. As partners in delivery, users bring resources, skills and capabilities to their interactions with providers. Co-production requires providers to share power and negotiate the interaction. There are strong managerial reasons for adopting co-production to improve effectiveness and efficiency. But the political reasons for adopting co-production are even stronger because of trends of many decades towards greater citizen participparticipation. These reasons oblige public managers in Australasia to adopt co-production in many fields of policy as part of the future. - Reproduced. Public administration Australian Journal of Public Administration N 97651 97650 97650 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 71, Issue no: 3 AR98111 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR