| Dimension | Scales | Key references |
| Network | Affiliation hierarchy | Breiger 1974, Wasserman and Faust 1994 |
| Implicit vs. explicit | Crown and Rosse 1995 | |
| Knowledge | Local/scientific knowledge | Berkes and Folke 2002, Gagnon and Berteaux 2009 |
| Knowledge mismatches | van Eeten 1999, Hermans et al. 2010 | |
| Policy | Flexibility | Choe and Fraser 2001, Aldy et al. 2003 |
| Policy decision levels | Jantsch 1970 | |
| Management | Organizational learning | Argyris and Schön 1978, Flood and Romm 1996 |
| System consciousness | Westley 2002, Westley et al. 2006 | |
| Process vs. project management | Meier and O’Toole Jr 2001, Edelenbos and Klijn 2009 | |
| Sectors | Inter-sector cooperation | Faulkner and Senker 1994, Casimir and Dutilh 2003, Peterson 2009, van Mierlo et al. 2009 |
| Vision | Vision development and adaptation | Westley and Mintzberg 1989, Berson et al. 2001, van der Helm 2009, O’Connell et al. 2011 |
| Innovation | Innovation pathways | Feder and Umali 1993, Kash and Rycroft 2002, Rycroft and Kash 2002 |
| Capacity, effort, willingness | McGrath 2001, McDermott and O'Connor 2002 | |
| Status | Organizational status | Podolny and Stuart 1995, Podolny and Phillips 1996, Gray and Balmer 1998 |
| Roles | Role definitions and expectations | Sverrisson 2001 |