Katznelson Derek, Sohns Antonia, Kim Dongkyu, Roozee Evelyn, Donner William R, Song Andrew M, de Vries Jasper R, Temby Owen, Hickey Gordon M
Department of Sociology, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX USA.
Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
Reg Environ Change. 2025;25(1):3. doi: 10.1007/s10113-024-02328-y. Epub 2024 Dec 6.
Natural resource management networks cohere due to mutual dependencies and fragment, in part, due to the perceived risks of interaction. However, research on these networks has tended to accept coherence a priori rather than problematizing dependence, and few studies exist on interorganizational risk perception. This article presents the results of a study operationalizing these concepts and measuring the distribution of three types of dependence (capital, legitimacy, and regulatory) and two types of perceived risk (performance and sanction) among nearly fifty stakeholder groups and organizations participating in the management of fisheries in the binational Gulf of Maine. The analysis reveals an organizationally diverse network with several stakeholder types participating, with communications clustered binationally, with low levels of perceived risk in interacting, and interdependencies cohering the network. The types of interorganizational dependence present varied across dyadic relationships, but legitimacy dependence, based on shared understandings that organizations should work together, was the most present and had the largest effect on collaboration-oriented network traits. Sanction risk was more common than performance risk but had the most substantial negative effect. The results suggest an opportunity for additional studies of interorganizational dependance and perceived risk to operationalize and measure the sources of network coherence and fragmentation and their effect on collaboration.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-024-02328-y.
自然资源管理网络因相互依存而凝聚在一起，部分因感知到的互动风险而碎片化。然而，对这些网络的研究往往先验地接受凝聚性，而非对依存性提出质疑，且关于组织间风险认知的研究很少。本文呈现了一项研究的结果，该研究将这些概念付诸实践，并测量了参与缅因湾双边渔业管理的近五十个利益相关者群体和组织之间三种依存类型（资本、合法性和监管）以及两种感知风险类型（绩效和制裁）的分布情况。分析揭示了一个组织多样化的网络，有多种利益相关者类型参与其中，沟通在双边层面聚集，互动中的感知风险水平较低，相互依存使网络凝聚在一起。组织间依存的类型在二元关系中各不相同，但基于组织应共同合作的共同理解的合法性依存最为普遍，且对以合作为导向的网络特征影响最大。制裁风险比绩效风险更常见，但负面影响最大。结果表明有机会开展更多关于组织间依存和感知风险的研究，以实施和测量网络凝聚和碎片化的来源及其对合作的影响。
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