Uniting Diverse Organizations: Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy Networks (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. 9781138109698 113810969X 160 Business networks NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wjmyswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Angel Saz-Carranza
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 24, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 158 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 113810969X
• • ISBN-13: 9781138109698