Uniting Diverse Organizations: Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy 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.

Book Details

• Author: Angel Saz-Carranza
• Publisher: Routledge
• eBook ISBN: 9781136263309, 1136263306
• Print ISBN: 9781138109698, 113810969X
• Other ISBNs: 0415899028, 9780415899024, 1136263314, 1283708493, 0203107799, 1136263268, 9781136263316, 9781283708494, 9780203107799, 9781136263262