Shifting Vantage and Conceptual Puzzles in Understanding Public Organization Networks1

Abstract

Practitioners and students of public organizations experience and observe network phenomena at a quickening pace in a wide variety of policy domains. These phenomena appear to be sufficiently complex to raise questions about the adequacy of conceptual formulations of organizational and management relations rooted mainly in organization centric assumptions adequate as a basis for the understanding of this evolution. This article explores the implications of viewing public organizational networks (PONs) from three vantages of conceptual observation, and discusses variations in conceptual salience, theoretical interests, and insights regarding innovation as these vantages change. A short discussion of the challenges of networks and innovation to the attainment of public trust and confidence and institutional constancy concludes the article.

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