Uniting Diverse Organizations

Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy Networks
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-89902-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saz-Carranza, Angel

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Non-Profit-Organisationen, Verbände

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).