Governing and Managing Across Networks: Tools and Strategies

Abstract

Management within networks is a term used to mean a range of decision-making activities such as resource acquisition and allocation, production, distribution and exchange, co-ordination, positioning, planning and strategy development, collective sense-making, and so on. These activities impact, either intentionally or unintentionally, upon the size, structure and location of power within networks, whether they are collaborations between individual or organisational peers or connections of upstream suppliers and downstream customers.