Big questions in public network management research

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Agranoff, R; McGuire, M
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a003504
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 295-326
• 关键词: intergovernmental management; interorganizational network

摘要

As the use of networks in public management increases, more and larger questions expand this research arena. In many ways, public network management is in search of a paradigm equivalent to the hierarchical-organizational authority paradigm of bureaucratic management. We raise and offer preliminary answers to seven metaquestions that address the nature of network management tasks, group process in collaboration, flexibility of networks, self-responsibility and public agency accountability, the cohesive factor of networks, power and its effect on group problem resolution, and the results of network management. The light we shed on these issues by examining the black box of networks is designed to contribute to building an empirically derived knowledge base of network management.