ABSTRACT
Throughout this book, we have described governance networks as undertaking coordinated action and resource exchanges to achieve certain policy ends—be it problem framing, policy creation, or policy implementation. This definition accounts for operational functions that get carried out within virtually any interorganizational network: coordinated actions and resource exchanges that exist as basic operational functions of any network. Governance networks are distinguished from other forms of interorganizational networks because they carry out policy functions. In this section, we distinguish between operational, policy stream, and policy domain functions found in governance networks.
