Title:
1) Institutions, partnership and transformative change in multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSP) multi-level governance partnerships
2) multi-level institutional analysis of multi-stakeholder partnerships in development cooperation for transformative change: two Swedish cases
Concepts
Background
SDGs # 16 & SDGs #17
Quality of governments
Polycentricity of governance
Empirical Context
Paper 3: SEPA EGP & MSB ITP
Role of institutions
How institutional change happens?
Research design
Research Questions
Analytical Framework 
Institutional Sphere
Institutions (DiMaggio & Power, Ostrom, North, Scott)
Adaptive governance, polycentric (or integrated, collaborative) governance (Polanyi, Ostrom..)
Multi-stakeholder partnerships (network governance):
Transformative change (Thalen,)
Action (Partnership Sphere)
Outcomes Sphere
Development Results
Paper 2: Network for Learning
Paper 4: MSB ITP
Potential contributions
Case with embedded cases: Swedish public administration development cooperation
Theoretically
Methodologically
Empirically
integrate siological, organisational institutionism into IAD framework (collective action problem)
Global governance research through polycentricity for advancing adaptive governance and SDG transformative change
Network analysis: learning/knowledge diffussion, network development
critical institutionalism to study MSP
Action research: temporal dimensions of 3 spheres
Integrating 3 spheres
Possibilities and realities of DDD for SDGs, SDG# 16, SDG# 17
Critical and nuanced reflection among PA on their understanding and processes about CapDev in relation to to the change they aspire/are mandated to contribute?
Abductive
Action Research
Case study
Mixed methods
Reflexivity
Quantitative
Qualitative
Central RQ: What are the institutional conditions and MSP arrangements in (public sector) development cooperation that make transformational change possible for sustainable development? (conditions enabling and inhibiting; argue why transformative change))
Research gap
Scopying Study (using A & M framework)
Sub RQ1: In what way institutional conditions interact (vice versa) with the type of MSP arrangements in (public sector) development cooperation?
Sub RQ3: To what extent can we preempt (predict) the types of institutional conditions and the types of MSP arrangements can (are likely) to result in certain types of change?
Sub RQ2: In what way different different types of MSP arrangements interact (vice versa) with the type and effectiveness of change as a result? (stated perceptions)
3 pillars of institution: regulatory, normative, cultural-cognitive (Scott, RW)
Institutional logics (Thorton & Ocasion, 2008), institutional diversity (Ostrom, ), institutional complexity ( )
Paper 5: towards a critical institutional change analytical framework
Research outputs
Paper 1: Scoping Study (2019) to propose starting analytical f/w
Paper 2: institutional analysis of current MSP discourse & practice among 15 agencies (comparing conventional with adaptive programming) bilateral vs multilateral (2020)
Paper 3: how change happens (info diffuse, network expansion) in cross-sectoral collaboration in EGP countries (2020)
Paper 4: baseline conditions of collaborative governance in MSB ITP countries (2021)
Paper 5: how change happens to collaborative governance over time (2022) (tested framework)
Kapa (2022-2023)
Research Plan (HT 2019)
What types of MSP supports adaptive governance & transformative change? (in development cooperation)
Definitions
Benefits of MSP
Drawbacks, challenges, pitfall of MSP
What is know about MSP for transformative change
MSP
transformative change
collaborative, integrated, network, polycentric governance
What is not know about MSP for transformative change
Future research ideas
Research methods
Quantitative
Qualitative
Mixed
Scoping study gaps
Using Nvivo
Coding strategy
Nodes
IMRAD
Authors (relevant or important)
Key topics (as per left hand side)
Cross-country
cross-sector
cross-agency
types of MSP
types of institutional conditions
types of change
types of research methods
types of theories
Motivation of the study
contribution
Theories used
Empirical or theoretical
Entry points: Should also draw collecticve knowledge. transformative change needed for sustainability governance. Sustainability as a collective action problem. years of development cooperation's CapDev in improving quality of government limited results, despite acknowledgement of importance of systems thinking and systemic change. Been doing small things differently. We need to transform ourselves, how we do development cooperation. But how? conditions possible for that? in development cooperation and institutionalistic approach to analysing organisation of partnerships in development cooperation to understand change management processes and outcomes.
Two categories (change): incrementalism, transformativism
Comments: why transformative change? Why are we not doing anything? (need to capture two way interactions of sphjeres)
Design science process: developing framework
Comment: to connect papers with RQs