Collaborative Governance and Sustainability: The Role of Inter-Agency Partnerships in Implementing Sustainable Practices in Local Settings
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Accountability, Governance, Innovation, Interinstitutional Collaboration, Public Administration, SustainabilityAbstract
Governance, innovation, and sustainability have been consolidated as strategic pillars of public administration, articulating themselves in an interdependent way in the search for efficiency, social justice, and institutional legitimacy. The literature shows advances in management models, open innovation and sustainable practices, but also highlights tensions between bureaucracy, accountability and valuing civil servants, configuring a complex field of debates. In view of this, this study aims to analyze the interactions between governance, innovation and sustainability, with emphasis on interinstitutional partnerships and their impacts on the implementation of collaborative practices in the public sector, through an integrative literature review. The methodology was based on an integrative review carried out on Google Scholar, with articles published between 2020 and 2025. Descriptors in Portuguese and English on “public governance”, “innovation”, “sustainability” and “interinstitutional collaboration” were used. The selection favored methodological rigor, thematic adherence and theoretical relevance. The results reveal that the valorization of human capital, organizational flexibility and accountability are central elements of governance. Innovation, in its organizational, open, and social dimensions, is connected to sustainability, which is structured in long-term indicators, environmental accounting, and integration of social and economic agendas. It is concluded that collaborative arrangements strengthen public governance and expand the adaptive capacity of the administration in the face of contemporary challenges.
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