Uniting Diverse Organizations: Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy Networks

ISBN-13: 9780415899024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 158 str.

Angel Saz-Carranza

Opis

Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit, or "Network Administrative Organization" (NAO), manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal. Goal-directed networks are those that come together to achieve a shared objective, in addition to the individual organization-specific goals. This book's focus is on the management of goal-directed networks. Despite the fact that formalized goal-directed interorganizational networks have become extremely popular in the public and nonprofit sectors, as many social problems require concerted action, publications on managing goal-directed networks do not exist. In this book, author Angel Saz-Carranza examines four networks that differ by size, scope, and geographical location. He offers a novel and innovative framework focusing on networks' inherent internal tensions between unity and diversity, paralleling the differentiation/integration tension found in organization theory, which has not previously been applied to interorganizational networks.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Advocacy Networks in the U.S. Immigration Field  3. The Core of Goal-Directed Network Management: Uniting in Diversity  4. Building Power and Using It  5. Sustaining the Unity/Diversity Tension  6. Managing Interaction and Decision-Making in Diversity  7. Conclusion.  Appendix 1: Research Design and Methodology.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Angel Saz-Carranza is Coordinator of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics as well as a Research Associate at ESADE's Institute of Public Governance and Management. He was previously Associate Professor at the Catalan Polytechnic University (2007-2008).