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作者:Lowndes, V; Skelcher, C
作者单位:De Montfort University; University of Birmingham
摘要:Multi-organizational partnerships are now an important means of governing and managing public programmes. They typically involve business, community and not-for-profit agencies alongside government bodies. Partnerships are frequently contrasted with competitive markets and bureaucratic hierarchies. A more complex reality is revealed once partnerships as an organizational form are distinguished from networks as a mode of social co-ordination or governance. Data from studies of UK urban regenera...
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作者:Daugbjerg, C
作者单位:Aarhus University
摘要:The policy network literature has provided important insight into the way in which public policy is made in Western societies. Most network studies have focused on processes within networks and have paid little attention to the conceptualization of policy outcomes and the theoretical link between network type and policy type. This article defines and categorizes environmental policy and suggests a proposition on the link between network types and environmental policy types. It is argued that t...
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作者:Machado, N; Burns, TR
作者单位:Uppsala University
摘要:This article conceptualizes and analyses a type of complex social organization consisting of heterogeneous organizing modes and social relationships, combining, for instance, relationships making up markets and hierarchies as well as various types of informal networks. Each mode is constituted and regulated on the basis of a system of social rules making up a particular normative order and operates in terms of its own particular rationality or social logic. When modes are combined or integrate...
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作者:Peters, BG
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh