Network structures and network effects across management and policy contexts: A systematic review

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Hu, Qian; Medina, Alejandra; Siciliano, Michael D.; Wang, Weijie
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12835
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 953-972
• 关键词: Social networks; GOVERNMENT; Embeddedness; COOPERATION; performance; strength; ORGANIZATIONS; determinants; coalitions; centrality

摘要

The wide application of networks in public administration has been driven by the practical need to address increasingly complex management and policy problems. To understand the outcomes of network structures, we reviewed empirical network research and examined the effects of six network structural properties across the five most studied policy domains. We found that certain structural properties such as global connectedness were consistently associated with positive network effects. Other structures such as brokerage/structural holes provided mixed findings, depending on the policy domain. Overall, our field is still in the early stages of developing research on network effects. The number of hypotheses on both node-level and system-level effects in any policy domain was relatively small. Most studies focused only on a single network at a single point in time, and thus very little work currently exists that examines the influence of contextual factors and their combined effects with network structures.