A Manager's Guide to Choosing and Using Collaborative Networks

This report can be viewed as a public manager’s primer on collaborative networks. It distills key concepts about the types and purposes of networks and, more importantly, what managers need to do if they find themselves in charge of or participating in...

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By

H. Brinton Milward, Ph.D.

Director and Providence Service Corporation Chair in Public Management

University of Arizona 520-621-7476 milward@email.arizona.edu

Keith G. Provan, Ph.D.

This report can be viewed as a public manager’s primer on collaborative networks. It distills key concepts about the types and purposes of networks and, more importantly, what managers need to do if they find themselves in charge of or participating in a network. Authors’ practical insights are rooted in more than two decades of observing ongoing networks, mainly at the local and regional levels, where much of the innovative work in using networks is occurring. Manage’s guide, Brinton Milwar, Keith Provan, public management networks, essential task for network managers, problem solvin, service implementation, management of network, management in networks, problem solving networks, IBM Center for The Business of GovernmentCollaboration: Networks and Partnerships

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