ABSTRACT

This paper 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.

摘要

本文阐述了协作风险的概念，并在应急管理背景下测量协作风险，以研究感知的协作风险与网络结构之间的关系，并测试这种关系的假设非线性形式。该研究利用机构集体行动 (ICA) 框架，讨论了源自协调、分工和叛逃风险的协作风险的三个维度，并通过对韩国首尔都市区 69 个组织的结构化调查来衡量这些风险。分数多项式回归模型的结果表明，协作风险的感知水平与组织建立的协作关系数量呈反 U 曲线关系。这些发现表明，组织感知的协作风险超过阈值会促使终止以前无效的安排。同时，与其他参与者的协作会增加特定级别的协作风险。