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Formalizing the connections

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Global Action Networks

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How are GANs (Global Action Networks) governed? What is their decision-making structure? These are common questions. The answers, as the chapter on development stages suggests, change as a GAN develops. However, they tend to follow some patterns that are worth describing to get a sense of the range of answers being explored at this moment of GANs’ development as a new organizational form.

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Waddell, S. (2011). Formalizing the connections. In: Global Action Networks. Bocconi on Management Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230300460_6

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