Treating Networks Seriously
Practical and Research-Based Agendas in Public Administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5836722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence J O’toole (University of Georgia, corresponding author), Laurence J O'Toole |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-45 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/976691 |
| OpenAlex | W2097809632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 413 |
| References cited | 23 |
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 clients in complex patterns of program operations? Not very well, if judged by the extent to which practitioners and scholars have incorporated the network concept and its implications into their own work. Discussions in the field contain little to help practicing managers cope with network settings. In fact, conventional theory may actually be counterproductive when applied inappropriately to network contexts. And yet, these arrays are now consequential and becoming increasingly so. Practitioners need to begin to incorporate the network concept into their administrative efforts. The challenge for scholars is to conduct research that illuminates this neglected aspect of contemporary administration. The author sketches a set of agendas that offer prospects for helping to address this need
Complex Systems and Decision Making · E-Government and Public Services · Public Policy and Administration Research
A race without rules
Network structure and institutional complexity in an ecology of water management games
Contracting for Social Programs
Managing Social Welfare Policy
Handbook of Public Administration
SDGs and the Rise of an Epistemic Infrastructure
The Public Network Scholarly Community in Europe
Public Management
Managing the hollow state Collaboration and contracting
Leadership in the Shaping and Implementation of Collaboration Agendas
Institutional Analysis and Ecosystem-Based Management
Governance and Governance Networks in Europe
The Challenge of Collaborative Governance
Implications of Welfare Reform
Enacting Leadership for Collaborative Advantage
Managing upward, downward and outward
Networks in Public Administration
Cultural technology district
Health in All Policies (HiAP) governance
Developing an inter-organizational community-based health network
Dynamic capabilities in institutionalized public services
Managing third-party accountability in human services contracting
Strategies for Tackling Covid-19 Pandemic from the Wicked Problem Perspective
Power, brokers, and agendas
The dynamic collaboration in crisis communication
Collaborative governance for forest land use policy implementation and development
Collaborative planning principles for disaster preparedness
Interorganizational Collaboration for the Implementation of Hazard Mitigation Strategies
Mitigating collaborative inertia
Dynamics in network governance of infrastructure public-private partnerships
Managing (through) a network of collaborations
Do network management and trust matter for network outcomes? A meta-analysis and research agenda
Core-periphery structure and power imbalance in disaster management networks
Managing the performance of healthcare networks
Radical and disruptive answers to downstream problems in collaborative governance
What drives network effectiveness? A configurational approach
Personality traits and public service motivation as psychological antecedents of managerial networking
Navigating network governance
The case for metagovernance
Network Structures and Performance
Repensar la esfera pública
Institutional and Ideational Features of Canadian-US Fishery Management Networks
Creating and Managing Interorganizational Learning Networks To Achieve Sustainable Ecosystem Management
The emergence of attractors under multi-level institutional designs
Collaborative capital budgeting in U.S. local government
Leadership and performance in intermunicipal networks
Rethinking Collaboration and Partnership
Fostering the creation of cross-sectorial networks
Redes de política no combate à fome e à pobreza
A construção da política de segurança alimentar e nutricional no Brasil
The Social Architecture of Collaborations in Four Watersheds
Dark Networks as Problems
Dealing with Wicked Problems in Networks
Analyzing Social Policy from a Network Perspective
Where Have I Seen You Before? Networks, Trust and Reciprocity as a Source of Collaboration in the Public Service
Interprofessional Collaboration in Public Organizations
Too much of a good thing? A systematic review about the conditions of learning in governance networks
Making Network Governance Work in Forest Land-Use Policy in the Local Government
Unravelling collaborative governance dynamics within healthcare networks
Rules as Institutional Context for Decision Making in Networks
The Influence of Democratic Legitimacy on Outcomes in Governance Networks
Collaboration Processes
Competitors and Cooperators
From “Need to Know” to “Need to Share”
Connecting with New Partners in Covid ‐19 Response
Managing Networks
Systems Ideologies and Street-Level Bureaucrats
Guerrilla Employees
Jump‐Starting Collaboration
Public Management and Educational Performance
The Use of Network Analysis to Strengthen Community Partnerships
Management Activity and Program Performance
One‐way, Two‐way, or Dead‐end Street
A Contingent Approach to the Organization and Management of Public–Private Partnerships
The Effect of Problem Severity, Managerial and Organizational Capacity, and Agency Structure on Intergovernmental Collaboration
American Public Administration and Impacts of International Governance
Governance Structure and Administrative Corruption in Japan
Advancing E‐Governance
Networks and Networking
Political Control versus Bureaucratic Values
Network Structures
The Phenomenon of Collective Action
Local Leaders' Informal Networks and Policy Tourism
Three Traditions of Network Research
Anarchy as a Model for Network Governance
Reputation and Public Administration
Symposium on Implementing Public Policy
The Future of Network Governance Research
The environmental determinants of diversity management
The Impact of Network Management on Outcomes in Governance Networks
Beyond Dark and Bright
Towards an Exogenous Theory of Public Network Performance
The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing interjurisdictional natural resources
The Limitations of Public Management Networks
Applying Policy Network Theory to Policy-Making in China
Beware of Managers Not Bearing Gifts
Networking Literature About Determinants of Network Effectiveness
Central Steering And Local Networks
Managing resource transposition in the face of extreme events
Strategies for Safeguarding Public Values in Liberalized Utility Sectors
Public Policy for Democracy
The Science of Public Administration
Managerial Dilemmas
Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Two Approaches to Social Structure
Two Approaches to Social Structure
Refounding Public Administration
An Algebra of Soviet Power
Symposium on the Hollow State
Problem Solving and Institutional Design
Institutional Arrangements and the Management of Common-Pool Resources
Policy Issue Networks and the Public Policy Cycle
The Science of Public Administration
Human Services Integration
Public Organization and the Waning of the Welfare State
Information Exchange in Policy Networks
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
Moral Responsibility of Public Officials
| Unique citing works | 413 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,24 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 411 |