Name | Definition | Target | n | Citations |
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Create groups | To bring network actors together and align their activities around shared identity or goals in the form of groups. The group could be formed to: 1) provide ‘collective support’ for group participants 2) Provide support for a focal actor 3) Create community around a shared identity (professional identity) 4) Carrying out collective efforts (planning, decision making) 5) Promote shared learning (group training) | Context | 30 | [30, 36, 38, 49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75] |
Change the environment | Modifications or shifts in actors’ environment that lead them to alter their relationships to adapt. These environmental changes can be outside the network boundary: 1) Changing Resources 2) New Opportunities or Events Or within the network: 3) Changing network culture or norms | Context | 18 | [30, 50,51,52,53, 59, 61, 64, 72, 76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84] |
Change the composition | Changing the composition of the network by adding and/or removing actors | Context | 13 | |
Change actors’ networking skills | Changes or improves actors’ skills for connecting or working with others in the network. These strategies can be: 1) Group interventions focused on altering skills for dyadic interactions 2) One-on-one interventions focused on altering skills for dyadic interactions 3) Group interventions on general networking skills 4) One-on-one interventions on general networking skills | Actors | 19 | [50, 51, 54, 56, 58, 62, 64, 71, 73, 75,76,77, 85, 86, 88,89,90,91,92] |
Change actor awareness and/or knowledge of the network | Builds or changes actors’ knowledge and/or awareness of other actors in the network, and/or their connections to them through: 1) Personal mapping to identify those in an actor’s network 2) Inventories/Directories 3) Labeling specific actors 4)“Get to know you” sessions | Actors | 13 | |
Change actor prominence | Changing the centrality (e.g. popularity, mediation, etc.) of some actors (e.g. champions, study participants, or actors with certain characteristics), in relation to others by: 1) Increasing actors’ knowledge or skill through training 2) Decentralizing actors’ with negative behaviors through reinforcements 3) Identifying/labeling actors with expertise as ambassadors or leaders | Actors | 9 | |
Change actor motivations to connect | Changing an actors’ motivation to interact with others in the network by: 1) Educating actors’ about benefits/consequences of interactions 2) Incentivizing interaction | Actors | 12 | |
Change specific ties | Targeting specific types of relationships, or specific ties between selected actors for formation, strengthening, or dissolution by: 1) Strategically selecting actors to form a group or pair 2) Introduce incentives to form a specific type of relationship 3) Train actors to dissolve a specific relationship | Ties | 14 |