Meta Synthesis of Network studies in Public Administration researches

In the present age, problems and opportunities in public administration (PA) in several areas have common features like multidimensional, multiscale, limited predictability and Involvement of various actors in the public, private sectors and NGO's. In this Context, the way policymakers confront with complexities of problems and opportunities should be upgraded. Network approach, in the last three decades, has been widely welcomed by PA researches and provided institutional capacity to deal with tough problems. The first two decades, go around conceptualization and formulating theoretical fundamentals of network approach and last decade, PA researches focus on implementing them and evaluating consequences in solving political, economic, cultural and environmental problems in public sector. However, considering PA researches in Iran shows low importance of network approach and necessity of explaining the role of this approach and institutional capacities in PA studies. According to this, this paper is defined to designing network studies framework in PA researches and representing analytical strengths of network in in confronting with PA problems. The main question is: how is the network studies framework that can be used in PA researches?. Meta-synthesis used as the method of this research and we review several related researches to design network studies framework in PA researches. The findings of this paper show that the PA researches can use six dimensions of network in their researches included: context of network formation, process of network formation, network structure, network governance, and network executive management, outputs, Consequences and impacts of network.