Networking: Towards a Better Tomorrow

This book on networking is a resource in development literature for those interested in understanding and improving the ways in which networking roles and responsibilities are undertaken. It is written for practitioners and professionals interested in the processes and methods of establishing and stimulating networks.

From the preface: "The growth of networks as an organisational form is generally seen as a response to an increasingly complex world, which has spawned new arrangements for collaboration among like-minded or like- interested parties, as well as actors that have not traditionally worked together. This process has also been facilitated by the rapid change in communication technologies, which has opened up possibilities for information sharing, and collaboration, which previously would not have been possible."

The contents include:

• Chapter 1: Concept & Theory of a Network
• Chapter 2: Forms, Types Dimensions and Dynamics of a Network
• Chapter 3: Roles and Responsibilities of Networks: The Managerial Role
• Chapter 4: Roles and Responsibilities of Networks: Influencing roles of Networks
• Chapter 5: Sustainability of networks
• Chapter 6: Network: People Centered Advocacy
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.