To synthesize and examine the growing literature on mandated collaboration, we conducted
a critical literature review of the growing literature on mandated collaboration, asking what …

Inter-organizational relations are increasingly important in today's organizational landscape.
The management of these relations requires unique understandings and capabilities. Hence …

Many studies have striven to understand which factors affect the performance of public
networks. However, there are very few studies in the field of public management that …

How to make public networks really work? Scholars have recently answered this question by
emphasizing the importance of network management, trust and structure. Yet, studies that …

Focusing on Indonesia's Riau Province, this study examines the complexities of managing
networks for forest governance, and how local governments should adopt and enforce …

Rejoining other authors' arguments in favor of less linear and more process-based studies of
change in purpose-oriented networks (PONs), we propose conceiving of PONs not as social …

Networks as sets of autonomous organisations working together to achieve individual and
shared goals are becoming increasingly important across many areas of public …

In recent decades, the emerging post-New Public Management (post-NPM) reform wave has
introduced a variety of coordinative organizational forms, among them super-ministries and …

ABSTRACT A crucial topic is how network leadership recognizes and responds to network-
level tensions. However, when we focus on how leadership manages these tensions, we …

This paper aims to analyze how governance and management of strategic networks (SNs)
composed of small firms differ according to network size and length of existence. We …