Cross-organizational Coordination Research Articles

Framing the Problem of Flood Risk and Flood Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Abstract This paper develops the concept of flood problem framing to understand decision-makers’ priorities in flood risk management in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Region in California (LA Metro). Problem frames shape an individual’s preferences for particular management strategies and their future behaviors. While flooding is a complex, multifaceted problem, with multiple causes and multiple impacts, a decision-maker is most likely to manage only those dimensions of flooding about which they are aware or concerned. To evaluate flood decision-makers’ primary concerns related to flood exposure, vulnerability, and management in the LA Metro, we draw on focus groups with flood control districts, city planners, nonprofit organizations, and other flood-related decision-makers. We identify numerous concerns, including concerns about specific types of floods (e.g., fluvial vs pluvial) and impacts to diverse infrastructure and communities. Our analyses demonstrate that flood concerns aggregate into three problem frames: one concerned with large fluvial floods exacerbated by climate change and their housing, economic, and infrastructure impacts; one concerned with pluvial nuisance flooding, pollution, and historic underinvestment in communities; and one concerned with coastal and fluvial flooding’s ecosystem impacts. While each individual typically articulated concerns that overlapped with only one problem frame, each problem frame was discussed by numerous organization types, suggesting low barriers to cross-organizational coordination in flood planning and response. This paper also advances our understanding of flood risk perception in a region that does not face frequent large floods. Significance Statement This paper investigates the primary concerns that planners, flood managers, and other decision-makers have about flooding in Southern California. This is important because the way that decision-makers understand flooding shapes the way that they will plan for and respond to flood events. We find that some decision-makers are primarily concerned with large floods affecting large swaths of infrastructure and housing; others are concerned with frequent, small floods that mobilize pollution in low-income areas; and others are concerned with protecting coastal ecosystems during sea level rise. Our results also highlight key priorities for research and practice, including the need for flexible and accessible flood data and education about how to evacuate.

Analysis of the Effect of Grid Computing on Cross-Organizational Coordination in Marine Supply Chain

Fu, Z.; Ding, W., and Xu, S., 2020. Analysis of the effect of grid computing on cross-organizational coordination in marine supply chain. In: Yang, D.F. and Wang, H. (eds.), Recent Advances in Marine Geology and Environmental Oceanography. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 108, pp. 258–261. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.With the continuous warming of the process of economic and trade globalization, the production and operation activities and resource allocation behavior of a country or region are less and less restricted by national boundaries. The ocean has been further transformed from a transport hub for goods into a basic platform for international resource allocation. As an inevitable node of international economy and trade, the ocean occupies an increasing proportion of influential factors of international economic development in the supply-chain management mode year by year. The Internet can play an important role in the coordination of the marine supply chain, and the grid, a product of its Internet development, will also play an important role in the coordination of the marine supply chain. On the basis of its grid computing, cross-organizational coordination in the ocean supply chain is able to handle its complex business and financial analysis with difficulty. Grid computing will lead to collaboration across the ocean supply chain and ultimately to the best possible coordination of services.

Telemedicine management based on continued-acceptance and cross-organizational coordination

Thanks to such perspectives as technology continued acceptance and cross-organizational knowledge sharing, and review of existing literature and practice, the authors found the existing literature, both domestic and overseas, with the following shortcomings.In theory, there is little study on the telemedicine continued-acceptance behavior and cross-organizational knowledge sharing model; in methodology, there is little empirical study to build the telemedicine continued acceptance behavior model; in practice, there is little study on the telemedicine service management model in China's medical context.Based on such findings, the authors hold that subsequent studies may proceed individually and organizationally to study the continued acceptance model of telemedicine service users and cross-organizational coordination model of medical institutions.It also proposed countermeasures to optimize China's telemedicine sector. Key words: Telemedicine; Continued-acceptance; Cross-organizational coordination; Management

Inter-organizational Coordination in the Wild: Trust Building and Collaboration Among Field-Level ICT Workers in Humanitarian Relief Organizations

As many NGOs find themselves responding to the same crises, they have realized the potential benefits of coordinating their information and communication technology (ICT) activities—sharing satellite communications and internet access, sharing disaster assessment information—and have created cross-organizational coordination bodies. Coordination at the headquarters level across organizations has proven to be insufficient, and some bodies are now engaging ICT personnel in their field offices in coordination efforts. This case study presents the findings of one body’s field office coordination efforts among its ICT workers, where trust building through collaborative activities is revealed to be essential elements in successful coordination across organizations.