Network governance and collaborative governance: a thematic analysis on their similarities, differences, and entanglements

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Table 1. Journals selected for review.

Full Journal Title	5-year Impact Factor
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW (PAR)	5.765
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY (JPART)	5.394
GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS (Governance)	5.07
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW (PMR)	4.184
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (Pa)	3.59
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (IPMJ)	3.122
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (ARPA)	2.779

Table 2. Number of studies by journal and decade.

	NG	CG	Total	1990–1999	2000–2009	2010–2020
PAR	23	19	42	1	15	26
JPART	20	26	46	1	12	33
Governance	7	5	12		7	5
PMR	31	18	49		7	42
PA	32	11	43	1	9	33
IPMJ	9	5	14		1	13
ARPA	22	14	36	1	4	31
Total	144	98	242	4	55	183

Figure 1. Major research themes in NG and CG.

Table 3. Interface governance.

Interface	Articles in NG	Articles in CG	Research Contexts
Public-public	24	25	e.g. wildfire disasters, regional coordination
Public-private	9	4	e.g. Infrastructure, European satellite navigation programme
Public-non-profit	11	7	e.g. welfare services for children, educational services
Public-civil society	8	3	e.g. social services
Non-Profit-civil society	2	1	e.g. homeless services, and elderly care
Non-Profit-private	2		e.g. community mental health
Non-Profit-non-profit	5	2	e.g. disaster assistance, intercollege network
More than two categories of actors (e.g. public-private-non-profit)	43	24	e.g. combatting chronic disease, emergence management, wetland ecosystem conservation
Total	72% (104/144)	67% (66/98)

Figure 2. Juxtaposition of three levels of themes.

Figure 3. Tensions or Paradoxes in the NG and CG literature.