POL 601: Public Management

ChatGPT: Some major research questions in organizational networks within organization theory include:
1. How do organizations form and maintain social relationships and networks with each other?
2. How do network structures and positions affect organizational behavior and outcomes?
3. How do inter-organizational networks facilitate or hinder knowledge sharing and innovation?
4. How do power dynamics and social influence operate within organizational networks?
5. How do changes in network structures and relationships affect organizational behavior and outcomes over time?

• Scott, W. Richard and Gerald F. Davis. 2017. Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems Perspectives. Chapter 11.
• Granovetter, Mark. 1985. "On the Social Embeddedness of Economic Exchange." American Journal of Sociology, 91:481-510.
• Powell, Walter. 1990. "Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization." Pp. 295-336 in Larry Cummings and Barry Staw, Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 12. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. - Reading is available from instructor
• Uzzi, Brian. 1996. The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect. American Sociological Review, 61(4): p.674-698.

• Provan, Keith G. and H. Brinton Milward. 1995. "A Preliminary Theory of Interorganizational Network Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Four Community Mental Health Systems." Administrative Science Quarterly, 40:1-33.