Networks in Public Administration Scholarship: Understanding Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Isett, Kimberley R.; Mergel, Ines A.; LeRoux, Kelly; Mischen, Pamela A.; Rethemeyer, R. Karl
• 署名单位: Columbia University; Syracuse University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muq061
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: I157-I173
• 关键词: Social networks; management; collaboration; integration; governance; ORGANIZATIONS; hierarchies; services; LEVEL; trust

摘要

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 scholarship in the field and discuss how that has shaped the current literature. The body of the article focuses on the current challenges that network scholars face in the discipline, specifically basic theoretical issues, knowledge about formal networks, knowledge about informal networks, and methodological issues. We close the article with a look to the future and some suggestions for the future of network scholarship in Public Administration.