Robyn Keast Editor & Author

Robyn Keast is a professor in the Southern Cross University Business School. Her research is focused on networked arrangements and collaborative practices within and across sectors. She recently co-authored Negotiating the Business Environment: Theory and Practice for all Governance Styles and is working on Social Procurement and New Public Governance, Routledge as well as the development of several network tools for service practitioners. Myrna P. Mandell is emeritus professor, California State University and Adjunct Professor Southern Cross University, Australia. Her work includes articles, books and chapters on a number of different facets of networks, including: how to organize and manage networks, performance measures for networks, and leadership in networks.　 She has also done workshops, presentations and projects as a visiting professor internationally and is also the co-author of a number of publications on collaboration through networks specifically for practitioners in the public and non-profit sectors.　 Robert Agranoff is Professor Emeritus, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA, and Professor, Government and Public Administration Program, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Spain. He specializes in public and intergovernmental management and in collaborative and network management.