A Modern Guide to 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