Putting People Back into Networks

Rhodes, R. A. W.

doi:10.1080/1036114021000026337

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“…While structural studies predominate, the networking behavior of actors is also of interest. Rhodes (2002) in particular argues for its importance (see O'Toole and Meier 2004b for treatment of both simultaneously). As O'Toole and Meier show (2003), both structural networks and behavioral networking can be important and can exert separable impacts on performance.…”

Section: Network and Managerial Networking: The Standard Perspectivementioning

confidence: 98%

Networking in the Penumbra: Public Management, Cooptative Links, and Distributional Consequences

O’Toole

Meier

2006

International Public Management Journal

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Section: Network and Managerial Networking: The Standard Perspectivementioning

confidence: 98%

Networking in the Penumbra: Public Management, Cooptative Links, and Distributional Consequences

O’Toole

Meier

2006

International Public Management Journal

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“…To this end, an integrative policy planning framework was developed (Ziakas, 2014b), delineating the contextual dynamics of a host community, which can facilitate or constrain event implementations and cross-leveraging in a portfolio. The framework, grounded in the concepts of policy universe and policy community (Rhodes, 2002), postulates that the realm of intersecting responsibilities and common interests shapes an informal network that influences event portfolio planning and leveraging. The policy universe is the large population of actors and independent interest groups interacting and competing with each other for influence over policy.…”

Section: Event Portfolio Leveraging and Capacity-buildingmentioning

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Issues, patterns and strategies in the development of event portfolios: configuring models, design and policy

Ziakas

2018

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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Whilst the use of event portfolios as a multipurpose policy tool is increasing worldwide, academic attention on this phenomenon remains sparse. In response, the purpose of this review paper is to identify the major issues in the use of portfolios by host communities and destinations aspiring to become eventful and delineate the emergent development patterns and strategies. The paper postulates the core dynamics that can enable capacitybuilding in event portfolio development and suggests a network framework for setting up a holistic portfolio policy with systemic management properties. This framework provides a theoretical scaffolding to contextualize the first formalized city portfolio strategies. Based on this discussion, four major issues are identified: portfolio configurations, leveraging, sustainability, and community capacity-building. Policy implications are drawn that theorize the surfacing portfolio development models, design logics and strategic approaches. The effects on social structures are considered in terms of how they determine the longevity, legitimation, and institutional embeddedness of event portfolios. The paper proffers that event portfolios represent a multi-dimensional phenomenon and highly versatile policy tool with manifold configurations. Their sustainable growth requires a shift in event-tourism thinking from the hitherto focus on single major events to managing multiple events for achieving multiple purposes.

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“…Rhodes (: 402) compiled ‘factions’ based on the files of a local authority in Northern England. Initially, he discussed cases that the social worker considered interesting or a problem.…”

Section: New Ways (For Public Administration) To Do Ethnographymentioning

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‘Genre Blurring’ and Public Administration: What Can We Learn from Ethnography?

Rhodes

2014

Aust J Public Adm

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This article seeks to broaden the craft of public administration by 'blurring genres'.First, I explain the phrase 'blurring genres'. Second, I provide some examples of early work in administrative ethnography. Third, I compare this early, modernist-empiricist ethnography with interpretive ethnography, suggesting researchers confront three choices: naturalism vs. anti-naturalism; intensive vs. hit-and-run fieldworks; and generalisation vs. local knowledge. After this general discussion, and fourth, I discuss the more prosaic issues that confront anyone seeking to use ethnography to study public administration and look at fieldworks roles, relevance, time, evidence and fieldwork relationships. Fifth, I describe and illustrate the several tools students of public administration can use as well as observation and interviews; namely, focus groups, para-ethnography, visual ethnography, and storytelling.Finally, I conclude that ethnographic fieldwork provides texture, depth and nuance, and lets interviewees explain the meaning of their actions. It is an indispensable tool and a graphic example of how to enrich public administration by drawing on the theories and methods of the humanities.

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Putting People Back into Networks

Cited by 52 publications

References 31 publications

Networking in the Penumbra: Public Management, Cooptative Links, and Distributional Consequences

Networking in the Penumbra: Public Management, Cooptative Links, and Distributional Consequences

Issues, patterns and strategies in the development of event portfolios: configuring models, design and policy

‘Genre Blurring’ and Public Administration: What Can We Learn from Ethnography?

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