Networks in public administration scholarship : understanding where we are and where we need to go
By: ISETT, Kimberley R
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Contributor(s): MERGEL, Ines A | LEROUX, Kelly | MISCHEN, Pamela A | RETHEMEYER, R. Karl.
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ArticlePublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, jan. 2011Subject(s): Pesquisa Científica | Bolsa de Estudo | Rede SocialJournal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21, 1, p. i157-i173Abstract: This article examines the road that network scholarship has followed in Public Administration. We look at the historical drivers of the use of networks in practice and scholarship in the field and discuss how that has shaped the current literature. The body of the article focuses on the current challenges that network scholars face in the discipline, specifically basic theoretical issues, knowledge about formal networks, knowledge about informal networks, and methodological issues. We close the article with a look to the future and some suggestions for the future of network scholarship in Public Administration
This article examines the road that network scholarship has followed in Public Administration. We look at the historical drivers of the use of networks in practice and scholarship in the field and discuss how that has shaped the current literature. The body of the article focuses on the current challenges that network scholars face in the discipline, specifically basic theoretical issues, knowledge about formal networks, knowledge about informal networks, and methodological issues. We close the article with a look to the future and some suggestions for the future of network scholarship in Public Administration
Minnowbrook III : a special issue
Special issue editors: Beth Gazley and David M. Van Slyke
Volume 21
Supplement 1
January 2011
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