Network Theory in the Public Sector Building New Theoretical Frameworks |
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| Editor:
| Keast, Robyn
Mandell, Myrna P.
Agranoff, Robert |
| Series title: | Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-84395-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $190.00 |
Book Description:
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This book deeply explores and integrates existing network theory and related theories from a number of perspectives, levels and jurisdictions to develop a framework to guide network design, governance and management. The book focuses on the important issue of network performance, looking at networks as bounded and consciously arranged; the actors who participate in them design the relationships among a bounded set of individual organizations to purse common objectives. Finally, the...
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This book deeply explores and integrates existing network theory and related theories from a number of perspectives, levels and jurisdictions to develop a framework to guide network design, governance and management. The book focuses on the important issue of network performance, looking at networks as bounded and consciously arranged; the actors who participate in them design the relationships among a bounded set of individual organizations to purse common objectives. Finally, the chapters tease out the variety of governance modes or regimes that intersect with network governance. This book offers a comprehensive, integrative, interdisciplinary approach that enables specialists, practitioners and administrators across a wide array of interests and fields to formulate and work on problems using a common language, analytical framework and theoretical basis.