Managing Networks: Propositions on What Managers Do and Why They Do It

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Inside the Matrix: Integrating the Paradigms of Intergovernmental and Network Management (2003, background): “If public management research is to link the network and intergovernmental traditions some ‘‘next steps’’ appear logical.([34]) First, more needs to be known about how local managers order and manage their way through such complexity.”
Leading public sector networks: An empirical examination of integrative leadership behaviors (2010, background): “This is particularly true in public management networks where the provision and delivery of public goods and services falls on the government leader's shoulders (McGuire, 2002).”
Theorizing collaboration practice (2003, background): “Another studies the management of networks using a more traditional research approach, proposing hypotheses about managerial behaviour under certain proscribed circumstances, taking account of far fewer variables and consequently suggesting much tighter causal relationships (McGuire 2002).”