ABSTRACT
The idea that collaborative governance can be dissected using the base components of actors and styles and then assessed from an individual’s, intra-organizational, inter-organizational, and a collaborative perspective is new and intriguing. Policies, or at least their intended outcomes, are achieved through a collaborative of public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. The purpose of introducing the collaborative governance assessment model is to provide a simplified and standardized means for any collaboration or collaborative model to identify and describe the ubiquitous and elusive collaborative component of governance. A collaboration is a social structure, a social process, and an emergent quality of organizations seeking to work side-by-side to achieve a common objective. A meta-governor’s objective is to assemble or orchestrate the assemblance of a collaboration by understanding the “science” of collaborative governance. D. Wood and B. Gary identified the “doing” of collaboration or the process components of collaboration as a “black box”: the least understood aspect of collaborations.
