The networked bureaucracy: reinventing formalization in the context of collaborative governance
本文批判当前将公共网络与官僚制对立的观点,基于瑞典三个治理网络的实证数据,展示参与者如何建立层级关系、正式互动渠道和专门机构来推动协作治理,提出网络化官僚制的概念。
Based on a critical appraisal of current literature on Collaborative Governance, this article addresses the predominant way of dissociating public networks and bureaucracy as opposing forms of organizations.Drawing upon data collected from three governance networks in Sweden, the study displays how the studied actors seek to establish hierarchical relations, formal interaction channels, and designated offices to enable and facilitate collaborative governance networks in response to what is perceived as irrational and ad-hoc organizing.The analysis outlines how and why governance networks need not inevitably be transcending bureaucracy, but constitute a distinct and deliberate declaration of just that: The Networked Bureaucracy.