ABSTRACT
This chapter describes five key strategies that form the core of governance in networks. The first essential strategy is, naturally, knowledge about the actors who together form the network, which means actor analyses are important. The second, it is not only the individual actors themselves who are important but also the relationships between the actors. Maintenance and development of relationships are important tools for influencing actors and decision-making. Finally, anyone who wants to achieve anything in a network, with its erratic and unstructured decision-making, will have to cooperate with the other actors. There are also strategies whereby the content of a problem and solutions play a more central role. The influence an actor can exercise in order to achieve his own interests is, to a great extent, determined by his power sources. The combination of actors and resources can be used to arrive at a typology of actors.
