• Locates accountability within network linkages as well.
Accountability is an emergent product of robust ties within a
network. More work is needed that explores the importance of
creating and maintaining rich ties on network stability and accountability.
• Is local. Anarchist collectives tend to be small, closely knit
communities. Also, locality recognizes the importance of environment
and context to network success. Accordingly, the search
for a single overarching theory to account for all governance
networks may not be productive. Rather, characterizing and categorizing
the conditions that have generated successful networks
may prove more useful.
• Is organic rather than mechanical. Networks are grown,
not built. Th eir parts are not interchangeable; rather, function
and ability are tied to context and environment. Again, the
practical lesson for networks management is to focus on an
environment conducive to network development and growth
as well as those