The institutions and service projects are formally independent of one another; however, they are informed of each other’s activities through networks of volunteers and professionals. They all set good examples for one another, and provide alternative perspectives and forums that can be emulated or improved on by others.

The various SMOs which comprise the collective actor of the Gülen Movement are autonomous because they work within the limits allowed by the law and the System; they are interdependent because they interact, exchange and benefit from collective outcomes, because they recognize the outcomes as their own, and because the outcomes are recognized as belonging to the Gülen Movement and its SMOs by other people and groups.

Because individuals or service-groups are connected by interdependent relationships, any variation in one element has effects on all the others in the Gülen Movement. There are mutual relationships which are negotiated, and there are institutionalized relationships which are contractual. Participants and networks use their cumulative experience to adapt, negotiate, and devise strategies. They restructure the field of activities in which they are active, and adjust future projects and ways of carrying them out.

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