Uniting Diverse Organizations

<p>Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit or Network Administrative Organization (NAO) manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal. Goal-directed networks are those that come together to achieve a shared objective in addition to the individual organization-specific goals. This book’s focus is on the management of goal-directed networks. </p><p>Despite the fact that formalized goal-directed interorganizational networks have become extremely popular in the public and nonprofit sectors as many social problems require concerted action publications on managing goal-directed networks do not exist. In this book author Angel Saz-Carranza examines four networks that differ by size scope and geographical location. He offers a novel and innovative framework focusing on networks’ inherent internal tensions between unity and diversity paralleling the differentiation/integration tension found in organization theory which has not previously been applied to interorganizational networks.</p>