Leadership and Performance in Public Sector Networks

✍ Scribed by Marco Mastrodascio, Denita Cepiku, Filippo Giordano

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses two key aspects of network management in the public sector: leadership and performance. It investigates what integrative leadership is, and how it differentiates from leadership in single-agency structures. It also examines the performance of public interest networks by proposing an analytical framework that highlights which factors lead to high performance networks. This book is of interest to scholars and students of public management and public administration, as well as public managers and practitioners acting through networks and partnerships.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Research Aims
1.2 Structure of the Book
References
Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework
2.1 Networks: Definitions and Types
2.2 Networks Management and Governance
2.2.1 Network Failure
2.2.2 Network Management
2.2.3 Network Governance
2.3 Network Leadership
2.3.1 Evolution of Leadership Theories
2.3.2 Leadership in Networks
2.4 Network Performance
2.4.1 Network Performance Models
2.4.1.1 Structure and Context Model
2.4.1.2 The Exogenous Model of Public Network Performance
2.4.1.3 The Three Network Operation Levels Model
2.4.1.4 An Integrated Model of Network Performance
2.4.1.5 The Multidimensional Network Performance Model (MMNP)
References
Chapter 3: Empirical Analysis Part 1: Network Leadership
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Context of Analysis: Intermunicipal Cooperation in Italy
3.3 Data and Methods
3.4 Leadership Behaviours in Local Government Networks
3.5 The Leadership-Performance Link
3.6 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 4: Empirical Analysis Part 2: Network Performance
4.1 Introduction: From Network Euphoria to Performance Measurement
4.2 Context of Analysis: UNESCO and Its World Heritage Sites
4.3 Methodological Approach
4.3.1 Selection of Conditions, Outcome and Cases
4.3.2 Reduction of Complexity and Set Membership Calibration
4.3.3 Community-Level Performance
4.3.4 Casual Conditions
4.4 Results: Configurational Conditions for the Network Management of UNESCO’s Sites
4.4.1 Boolean Minimization
4.4.2 Interpretations of the Results and Check Through the Parameters of Fit
4.5 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks
References
Index