How well equipped are today's public administrators to face the challenges they confront
from the involvement of businesses, not-for-profits, other units of government, and even …

This article provides an overview of the key research findings and core concepts on the topic
of organizational networks. The primary focus is on goal‐directed “whole” service delivery …

This article presents an analysis of different network coordination strategies. The article
extends network management scholarship by integrating sector-based differences within a …

Published in 1997, the article “Treating Networks Seriously: Practical and Research‐Based
Agendas in Public Administration” outlined the importance of networks for the field of public …

Although policy and collaborative networks have been studied since the 1970s and 1980s,
only recently has the management of these entities come under greater scrutiny. Studies of …

This article examines the road that network scholarship has followed in Public
Administration. We look at the historical drivers of the use of networks in practice and …

Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and
structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspectives of networks come out of …

The use of inter-organizational networks as a strategy for public sector management, and
the study of these networks by a diversity of scholars, has grown rapidly in the past 15 to 20 …

As the use of networks in public management increases, more and larger questions expand
this research arena. In many ways, public network management is in search of a paradigm …

This article identifies and describes the development of three parallel streams of literature
about network theory and research: social network analysis, policy change and political …