The dissertation investigates what forms the relationship between collaboration risks and collaborative action takes and what
patterns of collaborative action emerge, to what extent of political homophily affects the pattern of networked arrangement, and of what
type embeddedness relieves the risk from collective action and what types of embeddedness is effective. The first essay elaborates the
concept of collaboration risk and measures collaboration risk in an emergency management context to investigate the relations between
perceived collaboration risks and network structure and to test a hypothesized non-linear form for this relation. Using an Institutional
Collective Action (ICA) framework, the study discusses three dimensions of collaborative risk derived from coordination, division, and
defection risk and measures these by means of a structured-survey of 69 organizations in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, South Korea. The
results of a fractional polynomial regression model show that the perceived level of collaboration risk has an inverse U-curve relation
with the number of collaborative ties forged by organizations. These findings imply that organizations’ perceived collaboration risk
beyond a threshold point motivates the termination of former ineffective arrangements. At the same time, the collaboration with other
participants increases to a specific level of collaboration risk. The second essay examines the extent to which homophily between
political actors, such as elected officials and council members, occurring at the local level, affects patterns of interorganizational
collaborations in an emergency response situation. While the current field of emergency management has focused on implementation-oriented
arrangements among the key stakeholders, few have systemically investigated the creation and development of interorganizational
collaborations led by political actors, especially following catastrophic events. By utilizing Quadric Assignment Procedure logistic
regression models with the 2015 Seoul Emergency Management datasets, evidence that political homophily has a positive effect on
facilitating interorganizational collaboration regarding emergency management has been found. The analysis reveals that a dyadic tie with
political homophily boosts local responders’ forging of ties with other agencies during emergencies. The findings imply that political
solidarity, formulated by mayors and council members, can broaden the scope of interorganizational collaboration with other critical
actors, such as local agencies and nonprofit organizations, by mitigating institutional collective action problems at the local level. The
third essay investigates the effects of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are
integrated into a network, on the level of collaboration risk emerging from relational uncertainty. A case of emergency management
including interorganizational collaboration is used as a lens through which to understand to the role of embeddedness in disaster networks
to extend the knowledge of collaboration risk within an institutional collective action framework. Despite efforts to understand the
structural effects on network governance, the risk embedded in collaborative arrangements has yet to be systematically explored. By
modeling OLS analyses of 69 organizations engaged in emergency management operations in the Seoul metropolitan area, South Korea, I
hypothesized and tested the effects of relational and structural embeddedness on the level of collaboration risk that an organization
perceives. The results show that both structural and relational embeddedness facilitate organizations to mitigate perceived collaboration
risk, implying that reachability secures relief from relational risk and that a commitment relationship binds the participants more
tightly. / A Dissertation submitted to the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Fall Semester 2016. / October 12, 2016. / Collaborative management, Emergency management, Network governance / Includes bibliographical references. / Richard C. Feiock, Professor Directing Dissertation; Christopher Coutts, University
Representative; Audrey Heffron-Casserleigh, Committee Member; Ralph Brower, Committee Member; Kaifeng Yang, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_405687 |
| Contributors | Song, Minsun (authoraut), Feiock, Richard C. (professor directing dissertation), Coutts, Christopher (university representative), Heffron-Casserleigh, Audrey (committee member), Brower, Ralph S. (committee member), Yang, Kaifeng (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (degree granting college), School of Public Administration and Policy (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (96 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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