Contents	5
	Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously	7
	1 Social Networks and Social Network Research	9
	2 Organization of the Book	10
	3 The Contributions	12
	References	15
	Part I: Networked Governance: General Issues	18
	Networks, Social Capital, and Knowledge Production	19
	1 Introduction	19
	2 Knowledge, Innovation, and Learning	20
	3 Production of Knowledge by Organizations, Markets, or Networks?	25
	4 Network Strategies, Competencies, and the Governance of Networks	28
	4.1 Stability and Dynamics of Knowledge and Competencies	29
	4.2 Incentives and Institutions Governing Networks	31
	5 A Macro-Level Perspective on Network Governance: Center, Periphery, and the Sources of Innovation	36
	References	39
	Managing Inter-organizational Networks: Governance and Practices Between Path Dependence and Uncertainty	47
	1 Introduction	47
	2 Network Management: Concepts and Levels	48
	3 Network Management as Reflexive Structuration	49
	4 Path Dependence: Beyond Persistencies	50
	5 Uncertainty: Beyond Risk	52
	6 Network Management Between Necessity and Impossibility	54
	References	55
	Governance Networks in Politics	58
	1 Introduction to Theory	58
	2 Networks and Political Power	62
	3 Governance Networks and Decision Making	65
	4 Conclusions	69
	References	70
	Part II: Types, Processes and Limits of Networked Governance	74
	International Institutions of Financial Market Regulation: An Example of Network Governance?	75
	References	84
	Governing the Crossroads: Interstitial Communities and the Fate of Nonprofit Evaluation	86
	1 Introduction	86
	1.1 The Debate on Nonprofit Performance Evaluation	88
	2 Forms of Networked Governance	91
	2.1 Brokerage	92
	2.2 Social Movements	93
	2.3 Technology Innovation Clusters	95
	2.4 Interstitial Communities	97
	3 Conclusion: The Spatial Power of Bridging Domains	104
	References	104
	How Personal Networks Govern Educational Decisions	107
	1 Introduction	107
	2 Researching Widening Participation via a Network Approach	108
	3 Fieldwork and Analysis	111
	4 Network Influence in Practice	112
	4.1 Collective Learning Identities	112
	4.2 Occupational Dynasties	113
	4.3 Educational Trajectories	113
	4.4 Managed Ambivalence	114
	5 Mobilising Network Capital	115
	5.1 The Bounds of the Possible	115
	5.2 Trickle-Up Effects	116
	5.3 The Role of Non-family Peers	116
	6 Conclusions	117
	References	118
	Performing Network Theory? Reflexive Relationship Management on Social Network Sites	120
	1 From Serendipity to Strategy: Networks as Asset	120
	2 From Description to Prescription: The Performativity Debate and Networking Practices	122
	2.1 Science as Social Engineering	122
	2.2 The Performative Loop of Social Network Analysis	123
	3 Performativity Online: Socio-Technical Affordances of SNS	124
	3.1 SNS as Camera I: Revealing Actual and Potential Ties	124
	3.2 SNS as Camera II: Revealing Relational Status	126
	4 Performativity Offline: The Evolving Genre of Network Guidelines	127
	4.1 Translating Social Network Analysis into Business Advice: Academic Business Journals	127
	4.2 How to ``Optimize´´ Your Network: Preliminary Results	128
	4.3 Network Size	128
	4.4 Network Diversity	129
	4.5 Network Position and Networking Orientation	130
	4.6 Theoretical Points of Reference	130
	5 Performing Social Network Analysis? Summary and Conclusion	131
	Appendix 1: Core and Sub Categories for the Text Analysis	133
	Appendix 2: Papers Included in the Literature Review on Social Network Management and Online Networking (Sect. 4)	134
	References	136
	Part III: Investigating Networked Governance: Methodological Approaches	140
	Simulating the Dynamics of Socio-Economic Systems	141
	1 The Nature and Goals of Social Simulation	142
	1.1 Simulations as an Alternative/Supplement to Statistical Modeling	144
	2 A Review of Simulations for Networks and for Governance	146
	2.1 Hypothesis Testing	148
	2.2 Simulations to Explore Possible Outcomes	150
	3 Evaluating Simulations	151
	4 Case Study	152
	4.1 Network Intervention by Law	154
	4.2 What-If Analysis	154
	4.3 Agent-Based Simulation	154
	5 Opportunities and Limitations	156
	References	157
	Studying Policy Diffusion with Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models	160
	1 Introduction	160
	2 What Is Policy Diffusion?	162
	3 Studying Diffusion by Applying a Network Approach	164
	3.1 Development of the Study of Diffusion from a Network Perspective	166
	3.2 Network Autocorrelation as the Potential Result of Selection and Diffusion	169
	3.3 Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models	172
	3.4 Where Are We Now?	176
	4 Diffusion of Countries´ Foreign Trade Policies via International Trade	177
	5 Summary	181
	References	182
	Contributions of Experimental Research to Network Governance	186
	1 Introduction	186
	2 Network Formation	188
	2.1 Basic Concepts	189
	2.2 Laboratory Experiments	191
	2.3 Limitations and Prospects	193
	3 Experiments on Social Exchange in Networks	194
	3.1 Basic Concepts	195
	3.2 Laboratory Experiments	198
	3.3 Limits and Prospects	201
	4 Conclusion	201
	References	203
	Environmental Governance in Multi-stakeholder Contexts: An Integrated Methods Set for Examining Decision-Making	207
	1 Introduction	207
	2 Multidisciplinary Perspectives that Informed Our Semantic and Social Network Integrated Methods Set and Team Collaboration	210
	3 Case Example: The Ordinance Commission	214
	4 Methodological Integration of Multiple Network Analysis Tools	214
	4.1 Method 1: Content-Proper Noun Index Method	216
	4.2 Method 2: Content-Text Correlation Comparison Method	219
	4.3 Method 3: Content-Text Word and Word Pair Comparison Method	221
	4.4 Method 4: Sentiment-Positivity Index Method	225
	4.5 Method 5: Structure-Conversation Networks Method	226
	4.6 Method 6: Structure-Social Influence Network Theory Method	228
	4.6.1 Structural Network Method	228
	4.6.2 Qualitative Conversation Analysis	232
	5 Conclusion	234
	Appendix	236
	Atlas.ti 7 http://www.atlasti.com	236
	Condor 3	237
	Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) http://www.liwc.net	237
	NetDraw http://www.analytictech.com	237
	UCINET http://www.analytictech.com	238
	WORDij http://wordij.net	238
	References	239
	Part IV: Conclusions	241
	Networked Governance: A New Research Perspective	242
	1 Two Notions of Governance	244
	2 Networks as Institutions	247
	3 Networks and Actors	250
	4 Networked Governance as a Research Perspective	252
	Literaturverzeichnis	259