Getting our hopes up: How actors perceive network effectiveness and why it matters

Peeters, Robin; Westra, Daan; Raak, A.J.A. van; Ruwaard, Dirk

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115911

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“…Furthermore, conflicting beliefs and divergent positions on problem definitions and possible solutions as well as institutional barriers can block collective action (Ferlie et al, 2011). Additionally, accountability and legitimacy tensions can arise among network actors, also in relation to external stakeholders (Peeters et al, 2023; Waardenburg et al, 2020). Network‐building in everyday organizational practice may lead to time pressures, intensive work demands, and possibly create integrity challenges due to increasing (moral) commitments (Hyde et al, 2020).…”

Section: The Promises and Challenges Of Network‐building For Complexitymentioning

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Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands

Woerd

Scheer

Bal

2023

Public Administration

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Networks are increasingly seen as promising generic solutions to complex public problems. This article analyzes network‐building in action within a specific regional setting as an attempt to cope with increasing and varied demands for older person care, studying everyday organizational and policy activities of actors. Drawing on a qualitative in‐depth case study of a regional network in Zeeland—the most aging region in the Netherlands—our findings illuminate how this network is created, nurtured, and sustained, and the particularities and complexities this involves. Our practice‐based approach demonstrates that network‐building requires the ongoing work of many agents within organizational contexts, as well as the outside interference of stakeholders to make the network “work” within the wider population of networks, institutional context, and geographical place. This highlights to network literature the importance of place‐based interventions that characterize how a network develops and pursues opportunities to come up with suitable responses to local needs.

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Section: The Promises and Challenges Of Network‐building For Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands

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Bal

2023

Public Administration

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“…Therefore, actors perceive goal-oriented networks as a legitimate way of organizing. Thus, actors consider goal-oriented networks a proper form of organization [22].…”

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The Economic Conditions of a 3D Tourism Village in the Application of Pro-poor Tourism and Social Capital

Putri,

Sari,

Fikriyah

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Kesatrian Village has received global attention for successfully changing the image of the slum area into one of the must-visit tourist destinations in Malang City. The application of the Pro-Poor Tourism (PPT) concept to create Kampung Tridi saw village residents participate in tourism activities. This study examines the relationship between social capital and PPT tourism activities on poverty conditions. The analytical methods applied in this study include social network analysis (SNA) and descriptive analysis. PPT activities positively affect all aspects of people's lives. First, better community social capital is assumed to lead to better tourism management. Second, the relationship between social capital and tourism is directly proportional to the community's economic condition, in which more social capital generates better tourism activities, thereby reducing poverty in Kampung Tridi.

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“…Cepiku et al (2021) found that high level of trust and abundant resources were enough to lead to network effectiveness, regardless of levels of network complexities. Peeters et al (2023) analysed how actors perceive network effectiveness and contended organizations' collaborative behaviours are noticed even without hard outcomes such as change in cost or quality of healthcare.…”

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Interorganizational networks in dynamics of disaster: Comprehensive approach to network effectiveness

Chang

2024

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Governments grapple with the challenges of uncertainty and complexity in disasters due to interconnected actors. This research explores how government organizations can effectively operate during disasters. Two aspects of network effectiveness—structural and procedural approaches—are considered. The structural approach emphasizes the network stability, while the procedural approach focuses on the process of network evolution. Analysing and comparing response networks from two earthquakes in Korea, a crucial environmental change—government reorganization—between them was identified. This allowed to assess how environmental changes impact network effectiveness. The findings suggest that effective disaster management requires complementing centralized authority with actual power distribution, empowering subnetwork groups as centres of common knowledge base, and emphasizing coordination among organizations with diverse expertise.

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Getting our hopes up: How actors perceive network effectiveness and why it matters

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands

Regional network‐building for complexity: A region‐oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands

The Economic Conditions of a 3D Tourism Village in the Application of Pro-poor Tourism and Social Capital

Interorganizational networks in dynamics of disaster: Comprehensive approach to network effectiveness

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