A Modern Guide to Networks

Robyn Keast, Joris Voets, Jack W. Meek, Christine Flynn (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

362 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80088-397-0 (ISBN)

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A Modern Guide to Networks highlights the key dimensions of today’s networks, advancing knowledge of how networks operate and how they will likely function in the future. Combining academic perspectives with practice-based insights, it pushes disciplinary boundaries and provides unique insight into researching and participating in social networks.

A Modern Guide to Networks identifies five core characteristics of contemporary networks and translates these into ten key pieces of guidance for researchers and practitioners. Arguing that a knowledge–practice gap has emerged due to the lack of contact between network practitioners and researchers, contributors chart a more collaborative future for the field. They identify how research can be effectively translated and implemented to shape the future of social networks.

A Modern Guide to Networks highlights the key dimensions of today’s networks, advancing knowledge of how networks operate and how they will function in the future. It showcases the diversity of these networks through extensive case studies, examining experiments in network structure, governance, management, leadership, and evaluation. Combining academic perspectives with practice-based insights, it pushes disciplinary boundaries and provides unique insights into researching and participating in social networks.

Providing a state-of-the-art overview of modern networks, it will prove invaluable to academics and researchers in organization studies, public administration and management, and social networks. It will also be a useful resource for practitioners seeking guidance on how to adapt to the rapid evolution of networks.

Edited by Robyn Keast, Professor, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University, Australia, Joris Voets, Associate Professor, Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University, Belgium, Jack Wayne Meek, Professor Emeritus of Public Administration, College of Law and Public Service, University of La Verne, US and Christine Flynn, Director, Connexity Associates Pty Ltd, Australia

Contents:

PART I SETTING THE CONTEXT
1 Introduction: why a modern guide to networks? 2
Robyn Keast, Jack Wayne Meek, Joris Voets and
Christine Flynn
2 What are networks? A social, relational perspective 15
Robyn Keast and Jack Wayne Meek

PART II CASE EXAMPLES
3 ‘Travelling from 1600 to 2020 in one week’: resilience
and leadership in school networks during the COVID-19
pandemic 33
Maria Cucciniello, Daniela Cristofoli and Alex Turrini
4 The role of communication in public health disaster
management: city–county engagements during COVID-19
in Los Angeles County 53
Shawn R. Granger and Jack Wayne Meek
5 Strategic planning in a governance network: a life cycle approach 76
Laure Vandersmissen, Marianne Schapmans, Joris Voets
and Bert George
6 Integrated service networks in Poland: insights from the
delivery of social assistance in two cities 96
Piotr Modzelewski, Robyn Keast and Geoff Woolcott
7 ‘Coopetition-based’ network governance – mechanisms
and pitfalls: the example of the German rehabilitation industry 123
Ingo Bode
8 A network analysis of a metropolitan affordable housing
network: lessons for policy guidance from the City of Los
Angeles 141
Helen Morales and Jack Wayne Meek
9 The role of shared identity in effective governance networks 166
Sinead Shannon and Mary Lee Rhodes
10 Network bandwidth management in public administration:
definition and mechanisms 191
Barbara Zyzak
11 A modern network gap: a case for the establishment
of formal boundary-spanning organizations to support
innovation policy 211
David Noble
12 Global health networks: fostering convergence in
women’s and children’s health policy 233
Mary E. Wiktorowicz, Yeonjoo Lee and Peter Tsasis
13 Knowing how, knowing who: the role of a UK online
health informatics practitioner network towards
system-wide learning 251
Louise Wilson and Marcus Baw
14 Positioning impact and sustainability under the umbrella
of cultural accumulation theory: framing a novel
conceptualization of modern networks 270
Geoff Woolcott, Robyn Keast, Amanda Scott, Tom
Cosentino, Joe Harvey-Jones, Helen Lynch and
Bronwyn Richards

PART III NEXT PRACTICE AND GUIDELINES
15 Modern network research: insights from network
practitioners in addressing the knowing–doing gap 291
Robyn Keast, Jack Wayne Meek, Christine Flynn and
Joris Voets
16 Conclusion: the practices of modern networks 313
Robyn Keast, Jack W. Meek, Joris Voets and Christine
Flynn

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Modern Guides
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80088-397-8 / 1800883978
ISBN-13	978-1-80088-397-0 / 9781800883970
Zustand	Neuware