“…Most notably, as part of O'Toole and Meier's theory of public management (O'Toole and Meier 1999, 2015), managerial networking has been empirically tested as a substantively important performance improvement in the context of U.S. local school districts not simply in a linear fashion but also in a nonlinear way with respect to other organizational resources (e.g., Hicklin, O'Toole, and Meier 2008; Meier and O'Toole 2001). The performance‐enhancing aspects of managerial networking have been widely tested in different contexts and countries, including English local governments (Walker et al 2010), Danish public education (Meier et al 2015), Dutch local governments in the social care domain (Van der Heijden and Schalk 2018), Dutch primary schools (Van den Bekerom, Schalk, and Torenvlied 2017; Van den Bekerom, Torenvlied, and Akkerman 2016, 2017), municipalities in El Salvador (Avellaneda 2016), U.S. municipal governments (Jimenez 2017), U.S. municipal police departments (Nicholson‐Crotty and O'Toole 2004), American hospitals (Zhu 2016), and U.S. nonprofit human service organizations (Johansen and LeRoux 2013).…”