Purpose The concept of collaboration has received increased attention from scholars in
public management, as it has been seen as a viable solution to address “wicked” problems …

Governments increasingly tend to involve or rely on various societal actors to address social
challenges and develop cost-effective and high-quality public services. This paper identifies …

This article argues that governance network theory (GNT) has developed into a fully fledged
theory that has gained prominence within public administration. The emergence of New …

There is a large amount of literature and research on network management strategies.
However, only a limited portion of this literature examines the relationship between network …

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 …

Since the early 1990s, public networks have been implemented in many countries to solve
'wicked'public problems, addressing such issues as health, social care, local development …

Network-focused research in public administration has expanded rapidly over the past two
decades. This rapid growth has created come confusion about terminology and approaches …

Politicians and public managers utilize branding to communicate with the public as well as
to position themselves within the ever-present media now so central to political and …

The central assumption in the literature on collaborative networks and policy networks is that
political outcomes are affected by a variety of state and nonstate actors. Some of these …

This research examines the effects, over time, of network embeddedness, on three
organizationally based social outcomes. We argue that in a centralized, publicly funded but …