The study investigates the effect of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are integrated in a network, on collaboration risk emerging from relational uncertainty. Despite efforts to understand the structural effects of network governance, embedded relationships and their influence on collaboration remain relatively unexplored. A case of intergovernmental collaboration for emergency management is used as a test bed to examine the role of embeddedness in disaster networks and to extend the knowledge of collaboration risk within the institutional collective action framework. We hypothesize and test the effect of relational and structural embeddedness on the level of collaboration risk that an organization perceives. Our analysis of 69 organizations engaged in emergency management operations in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, South Korea reveals that both structural and relational embeddedness facilitate organizations to mitigate perceived collaboration risk. The results suggest that reachability secures relief of relational risk, and that commitment relationships bind participants.

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测试协作风险中的结构和关系嵌入

该研究调查了嵌入性（定义为组织集成在网络中的相互依赖关系的属性）对关系不确定性带来的协作风险的影响。尽管努力了解网络治理的结构性影响，嵌入式关系及其对协作的影响仍然相对未探索。一个政府间应急管理合作案例被用作测试平台，以检查嵌入在灾害网络中的作用，并扩展机构集体行动框架内的合作风险知识。我们假设并测试关系和结构嵌入对组织感知的协作风险水平的影响。我们对韩国首尔都市区 69 家从事应急管理业务的组织的分析表明，结构性和关系嵌入性有助于组织减轻感知协作风险。结果表明，可达性确保了关系风险的缓解，并且承诺关系约束了参与者。