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During the 1990s, writers on both public and private sector organisations converged on the claim that ‘networks’ represented a distinctive trend in their management and governance. They argued that networks were the most promising solution to the dilemmas of designing structures for improved performance, almost regardless of the measures used (e.g. effectiveness of interventions to users or financial outturns).
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© 2006 Perri 6, Nick Goodwin, Edward Peck & Tim Freeman
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Six, P., Goodwin, N., Peck, E., Freeman, T. (2006). Introduction. In: Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286115_1
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