Managing Complex Networks

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Managing Complex Networks

• Policy Implementation

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The missing link?
Policy Implementation
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Authors Networks concept

• JA de Bruijn
• KI Hanf (FW Scharpf)
• EF van Heuvelhof
• PL Hupe
• WJM Kickert
• EH Klijn
• JFM Koppenjan
• Larry J OToole Jr
• AB Ringeling
• L Schaap
• GR Teisman
• CJAM Termeer (Agricultural)
• MJW van Twist

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Policy Networks and Network Management A State
of the Art
Interorganizational Relations and Networks Policy
Communities, Subsystems and Networks Characteristi
cs of Policy Networks
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Network Dynamics and Management

• Dynamics of closedness in Networks
• Managing perceptions in networks
• Strategies and games in networks
• Instruments for network management

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Networks Important concepts

• Interdependent between organisations
• Continuing interactions between networks members
• Game-like interactions
• Significant degree of autonomy from the state

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Networks Exchange resources

• Money
• Authority
• Information
• Expertise
• To achieve objectives

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Biggest gap Networks

• Accountability

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Instruments

• Three families of instruments
• 1 Legal family e.g. orders
• 2 Economic family e.g. financial incentives
• 3 Family of communicative instruments e.g.
  transfer of information

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Instruments Limits

• Actors are committed to particular instruments
• Context requires different instruments
• Diminishing effectiveness of instruments

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5 C Protocol Implementation

• Content
• Context
• Commitment
• Capacity
• Skills
• Resources
• Clients and Coalitions
• Communication