Perspectives for the extensioun of Graiciunas' principle to the process of control in public networks

Public Organizations are increasingly interconnected, owing to the diffusion of ICT, in large networks based not only on the exchange of information but also on decisional processes making public administration as a whole system of governance and of services production. The Graiciunas' span of control, concerning the number of subordinates that a manager can control, emerges time to time in the theorethical discussions remembering us the simplicity of classical concepts and the influence of them on the economic and managerial history.