Significant work has already taken place that might legitimately be said to fall within
the boundaries of this emergent paradigm. This includes work upon the nature and
governance of the policy process (Klijn and Koppenjan 2000, 2004), the development
of key management skills in an inter-organizational context (McLaughlin and Osborne
2006) and the governance of inter-organizational relationships themselves (Hudson
2004; Huxham and Vangen 2005). Now is surely the time for such micro- and macrolevel
work to be integrated with the meta-level elaboration and development of the
NPG paradigm itself