Interest in networks in the fields of public management and policy has grown to encompass a wide array of phenomena. However, we lack a stable and empirically verifiable taxonomy for delineating one network class from another. The authors propose all networks and multi-organizational...

The federal government's policy of devolution has meant that many services that were formerly internal are now provided by non-governmental organizations. Thus, state and local governments have had to shift from managing hierarchies to managing multi-organizational networks. Our paper discusses...

This research examines the effects, over time, of network embeddedness, on three organizationally based social outcomes. We argue that in a centralized, publicly funded but mixed sector health and human services network, an organization's structural embeddedness in the network, as measured by...