Hybrids: Smart, Dumb, Solution or Problem?

Hybridity is nothing new. Public management scholars have become increasingly interested in the idea – as is evidenced by the collection of studies here – however, this is not the first wave of hybridity studies in our field. The authors here draw out a fascinating range of theoretical and practical tensions and questions through their exploration of the links between hybridity and smarter governance. In doing so, they also provoke many new (and old) questions that we need to explore to develop our understanding of hybridity. It is also important that we start to get much more connected to rich interdisciplinary literature that can help our field to advance our understanding of hybridity