Department of Public Administration, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8102, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2009 Dec;44(3-4):196-212. doi: 10.1007/s10464-009-9276-2.
In response to increasing demands for greater coordination and collaboration among community institutions, interorganizational collaboratives (i.e., coalitions, partnerships, coordinating councils) have emerged as a popular mechanism for strengthening the capacity of a community system to respond to public and social issues. This study adopts a network approach to explore the relative importance of dense networks of cooperative relationships among members of interorganizational collaboratives for two outcomes of effectiveness: improving interorganizational coordination and fostering systems change. Based on survey and social network data collected from 48 different collaboratives, findings indicate that, relative to other key characteristics of collaboratives identified in previous literature, cooperative stakeholder relationships were the strongest predictor of systems change outcomes. However, for coordination outcomes, stakeholder relationships were overshadowed in importance by the leadership and decision making capacity of the collaborative. Collectively, findings suggest key differences in the requisite capacity profiles for coordination and systems change outcomes.
为了回应对社区机构之间更大协调与合作的需求，跨组织合作组织（即联盟、伙伴关系、协调理事会）已经成为增强社区系统应对公共和社会问题能力的一种流行机制。本研究采用网络方法，探索了成员之间合作关系密集网络对跨组织合作组织的两个有效性结果（即改善组织间协调和促进系统变革）的相对重要性。基于从 48 个不同合作组织收集的调查和社会网络数据，研究结果表明，与之前文献中确定的合作组织的其他关键特征相比，合作利益相关者关系是系统变革结果的最强预测因素。然而，对于协调结果而言，利益相关者关系的重要性被合作组织的领导力和决策能力所掩盖。总的来说，研究结果表明，在协调和系统变革结果所需的能力特征方面存在显著差异。
