Management in the communal networks practice: analysis of multi-management of networks for local developement

Abstract

Networks are groups of complexly organized links between nodal positions, where dense processes of conversations and interchanges of social support take place. Over this basis, the characteristics and qualities, that are assumed locally by a community network in the management of social and economic development processes, were investigated.

Quantitatively, the authors worked with a universe of fifty-three nodes, adoptingthe nature of the communal network as the analysis unite, and the representative individuals of those nodes as the observation units. Qualitatively, they studied twelve informants, selected by «empirical sampling», based on their origin from certain areas of the local development, which offered their views about net functioning, participation stages, partnership and network practice management. This allowed configuring the properties of self-organization and self-production of the reticulum and its social practice, as a potential multi-managed collective movement.