Learning includes an examination of the political and democratic context of public work and the current discourse of adding 'public value' to the limited governmental, managerial and business approach of the last two decades. The organisational coverage has at its core an examination of the organisation of partnership working, the current inter-organisational complexity of the public sector and the impact of the market fragmentation on the network world of modern public administration. This will include an examination of the contradictions of 'collaboration' versus 'competition'.