Network Organizations: The Question of Governance

Antivachis, Nikos A.; Angelis, Vasilis

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.1241

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“…The Core Scientific Team consists of 29 representatives from 8 separate research institutions in 7 different countries. These representatives are responsible for the central coordination and implementation of the survey in a distributed, network organization [1]. This network structure is similar to a matrix organizational structure in so much as the activities of the infrastructure are defused across multiple institutions and several institutions operate across multiple domains of the infrastructures scientific work such as translation, sampling, archiving and communications [?…”

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The Sustainability of Social Science Survey Infrastructures

Emery¹

2019

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Social science surveys are undergoing rapidchange due to fundamental shifts in the way data is generated, collected and processed. In order to address this challenge, several large scale social surveys have been integrated into the European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). This has allowed them to develop specialized and professionalized survey work flows within an integrated infrastructural context. This allows for greater sustainability through investment in survey methodologies and data collection which advance the field of social science. This paper examines three case studies within the ESFRI framework; The Survey of Health & Retirement (SHARE) and the European Social Survey (ESS) are European Research Infrastructure Consortia and are both landmarks within the ESFRI landscape. The third case study is of the Generations & Gender Programme which is an Emerging Community in the ESFRI landscape. The three case studies are used to illustrate the developments but also the persistent challenges for social surveys as they evolve with the framework of European Research Infrastructures. Each survey infrastructure is presented and it’s scientific, financial and governance sustainability. Conclusions are drawn as to the sustainability of survey infrastructures and how they could be further improved.

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Section: B Governancementioning

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2019

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“…Williamson's (1975) transaction cost economics developed this thought further and set the stage for the development of the 'continuum view ' (ibid) in which the existence of other forms of organization than market and bureaucracy was acknowledged only as hybrids located on a continuum between the two ideal types (see e.g . Powell 1990;Bradach and Eccles 1993;Podolny and Page 1998;DiMaggio 2001b;Provan and Kenis 2008;Antivachis and Angelis 2015). Today, a large number of scholars (e.g.…”

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“…Today, a large number of scholars (e.g. Ouchi 1980;Thompson 1993;Rhodes 1996;Podolny and Page 1998;Starkey et al 2000;DiMaggio 2001b;Baudry and Chassagnon 2012;Castells 2004;Halinen and Törnroos 2005;Demil and Lecocq 2006;Cristofoli et al 2014;Antivachis and Angelis 2015) share an alternative perspective from which the network form of organization is seen as an autonomous form of organization with its own logic (Powell 1990). 4 In this view, the 'network logic' and the 'properties of the parts of 2 Trust has been defined in different ways highlighting different facets of the phenomenon.…”

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Beyond trust: towards a practice-based understanding of governing ‘network organizations’

Tobias-Miersch

2016

J Manag Gov

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In recent past the concept of the 'network' or 'network organization' has emerged as one of the most prominent concepts for thinking, understanding and conceptualizing the coordination of 'productive activities'. In the literature on network organizations, 'trust' is commonly understood to be the main coordinating mechanism of this organizational form. Highlighting the problematics involved in this prime focus on trust, this study combines practice-based theory (Schatzki in Social practices: a Wittgensteinian approach to human activity and the social, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008) and a Foucauldian understanding of governing to contribute to a more differentiated understanding of the coordination of everyday activities in network organizations. By focusing on how the 'network organization' and its subjects are 'produced' in power-infused practices, this study provides insights into the complexity of mechanisms involved in such organizations. Empirically this is illustrated at the example of a consulting company which describes itself-internally and externally-as 'network organization'. Based on an ethnographic participant observation and in-depth semi-structured interviews, the analysis of the case questions the centrality of trust as coordinating mechanism and provides deep insights into the constitution of this specific 'network organization'.

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“…A network may have a governing mechanism and thus network governance is usually categorised into three major types (Antivachis and Angelis, 2015). Participant networks governance is the simplest form and can be either formal or informal.…”

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Information Systems Development for Emerging Public Sector Cross-sector Collaborations: The Case of Swedish Emergency Response

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Information systems (IS) seem prevalent in modern societies and this has resulted in the rapid digitalisation of different societal sectors. One application domain of IS is emergency response systems (ERSs), which are responsible for delivering essential services to save lives and minimise environmental damage in both small, frequent and large-scale emergencies. Specific IS applications are in turn used in ERSs to support such aspects as decision-making, communication, information sharing and the dispatching of resources. Public sector cutbacks and a lack of professional resources have negatively affected emergency response at the same time as natural and man-made disasters (e.g. forest fires, storms, terror attacks) have intensified in recent decades. At the same time, frequent, small-scale accidents continue to occur, both in urban and sparsely populated areas. As a result, emergency response actors, first responders, are often placed under severe pressure. An emerging trend in response to these challenges, both in Sweden and internationally, is to create cross-sector forms of collaboration, by combining alternative resources from various sectors. Since these collaborations are relatively new and involve heterogeneous stakeholders, it is essential to understand the context, as well as actors' tasks and needs in related IS development processes. When the work on this thesis started, there was a perceived lack of knowledge relating to ERS cross-sector collaboration and the associated needs for digitalisation/IS support; for example, in which situations actors should be involved, what they should do, what challenges they may face and how these may affect IS.Organisational and needs analyses are deemed essential first steps that can be used to understand the nature of these collaborations, their heterogeneous users and stakeholders, potential needs, and related opportunities and challenges. One way to do this is to enable user participation, gaining help from stakeholders who may know the context. However, despite the many perceived benefits, user participation is also associated with several challenges; for example, how to identify and involve relevant stakeholders, especially when they are numerous and heterogeneous. These challenges have been discussed in relation to the new public sector but not specifically in the development of cross-sector collaborations in ERSs. Furthermore, using different frameworks for performing organisational/stakeholder/needs analysis in new domains can help to structure them. At the beginning of the work on this thesis, there was a perceived lack of broad frameworks for ERS cross-sector collaborations that could be used as tools in the related analysis and user participation activities. Finally, at a theoretical level, it was deemed interesting to use network governance as an analytical lens to enable a further understanding of the ERS cross-sector collaboration phenomenon.The thesis objective is thus to explore IS-related opportunities, challenges and needs aimed at supporting heter...

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Network Organizations: The Question of Governance

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

The Sustainability of Social Science Survey Infrastructures

The Sustainability of Social Science Survey Infrastructures

Beyond trust: towards a practice-based understanding of governing ‘network organizations’

Information Systems Development for Emerging Public Sector Cross-sector Collaborations: The Case of Swedish Emergency Response

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