Uniting Diverse Organizations

Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy Networks

by: Angel Saz-Carranza

Uniting Diverse Organizations
Author: Angel Saz-Carranza

Publisher: Routledge

Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 30 July 2012

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ISBN: 0415899028 ISBN 13: 9780415899024

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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. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Routledge

City: London

Pages: 160

More info: height 229 mm width 152 mm weight 340 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 658.048 Library of Congress Subject: Nonprofit organizations

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Summary Uniting Diverse Organizations 1. Introduction 2. Advocacy Networks in the U.S. Immigration Field 3. The Core of Goal-Directed Network Management: Uniting in Diversity 4. Building Power and Using It 5. Sustaining the Unity/Diversity Tension 6. Managing Interaction and Decision-Making in Diversity 7. Conclusion. Appendix 1: Research Design and Methodology. Notes. Bibliography. Index Top page

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