A Manager’s Guide to Choosing and Using Collaborative Networks
On behalf of the IBM Center for The Business of Government, we are pleased to present this report, “A Manager’s Guide to Choosing and Using Collaborative Networks,” by H. Brinton Milward and Keith G. Provan.
Government leaders are increasingly finding that using traditional hierarchical organizations does not allow them to successfully address complex problems,
such as homeland security, emergency response to disasters, and the delivery of social services. As a result, they are beginning to explore the use of collaborative networks that reach across agencies and programs. But networks are not a panacea to public problems. There are legitimate questions about when they should be used, for what purposes, and how they should be managed. Much academic literature has attempted to address these questions, but little has been written that is directly targeted to public managers who are wrestling with complex problems and trying to assess whether networks can help to solve them. 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. The 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.
H. Brinton Milward
McClelland Professor and Director
School of Public Administration and Policy
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Keith G. Provan
Eller Professor
School of Public Administration and Policy
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
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Elements of Multinational Strategy
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Three events led to the writing of this book. In 1976, my father’s employer, Exxon, reassigned him from headquarters in Houston to spend 18 months at
Esso Brasileira, in Rio de Janeiro. During the six years we ended up spending there, my father would often talk about issues facing multinational corporations in developing countries and I would occasionally listen. In 1984, I took the Swarthmore College seminar on microeconomic theory offered by Bernie Saffran. I became so excited about the use of economic analysis to explain how the world works that I decided to do a Ph.D. in the field. In 1992, teaching “International Business Management” for the first time, I found a subject with a myriad of interesting questions but very little in the way of a conceptual framework. I began, working together with John Ries, to figure out how to use economic reasoning and data analysis to answer these questions. The result is this textbook.
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