Abstract
Inter-organizational communication, coordination, and network effectiveness have long been of great interest. However, the level of their complexity and situational dependencies still create challenges for researchers and public managers. It is usually assumed that inter-organizational communication leads to inter-organizational coordination, but little is known how these processes interact and complement each other. This article aims at identifying relationships linking these processes and analyzing their impact on effectiveness of emergency management networks. Achieving the goal of the article based on the survey questionnaire conducted with 83 experts. The results were analyzed using the principal components analysis (PCA), correlation analysis, hierarchical clustering, and partial least-square path modeling (PLS-PM). The analyses conducted allow for identifying the dimensions of the research processes, and relationships linking them. This was the basis for building the research models testing how relationships between inter-organizational communication and coordination influence the effectiveness of emergency management networks. Comparing analyzed models points to complementarity, parallelism, and the possibility of a non-sequential course of inter-organizational communication and coordination.
Highlights
Inter-organizational communication and coordination have long been of great interest in both theoretical research and the practice of public organizations [1,2,3,4]
The hierarchical clustering results served as the basisfor for establishing
In each case, emergency management networks are of an individual nature, are deliberately organized and focused on solving specific problems
Summary
Inter-organizational communication and coordination have long been of great interest in both theoretical research and the practice of public organizations [1,2,3,4]. The importance of coordination results from the growing complexity in the implementation of public tasks, as well as the need to cooperate in networks created by units from various sectors [8,9,10]. Previous scientific research in this field focuses on their course [14,15,16,17,18], mechanisms [19,20,21,22], and effects [23,24,25] Interest in these processes has increased significantly in governance networks [26,27,28,29]. Research on what mechanisms constitute effective communication, coordination, and network effectiveness is relatively rarely undertaken [5,10,30]
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