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Kenneth Benson and Carla Weitzel’s paper raises some important issues, including some points which deserve to be explored further, and others which should not be allowed to go unchallenged. Rather than simply discuss and criticize Benson and Weitzel-’s work in abstract terms, an attempt will be made to compare it and contrast it with that of the present author. This is perhaps especially relevant since a third party (Healey, 1979) has already expressly suggested that Benson’s approach to inter-organizational analysis is to be preferred to that first put forward by the present author and others in a joint book some ten years ago (Friend, Power, and Yewlett, 1974).
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Yewlett, C.J.L. (1985). Interorganizational Analysis: A Field for Social Praxis Based on Social Structure, or Strategic Choice and Reticulist Judgements?. In: Hanf, K., Toonen, T.A.J. (eds) Policy Implementation in Federal and Unitary Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5089-4_16
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