The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks-Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Saz-Carranza, Angel; Ospina, Sonia M.
• 署名单位: Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); New York University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muq050
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 327-365
• 关键词: Public management; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY; PARADOX; collaboration; leadership; determinants; performance; COMPETITION; governance; strategies

摘要

Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a whole.'' By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to network performance, each makes contradictory demands which require attention. Findings from four case studies of immigrant networks in the United States point to three activities representing mechanisms that staff of network administrative organizations use to address this (network level) managerial tension. The study proposes that unity versus diversity represents a distinct challenge to the governance of networks that requires strategic action at the whole-network level and merits further study.