Humanitarian information exchange network: why do international humanitarian organisations collaborate?
by Louis-Marie Tchouakeu Ngamassi; Kang Zhao; Edgar Maldonado; Carleen Maitland; Andrea H. Tapia
International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS), Vol. 3, No. 4, 2011

Abstract: While in recent years research has highlighted the rise of inter-organisational collaboration among organisations in the non-profit sector and has documented issues related to forming and maintaining of these relationships, there is little known about inter-organisational humanitarian information exchange and especially the motives of collaboration. In this paper, we examine collaboration relationships among organisations member of a community of interest in humanitarian information exchange. We use the social network block-model method to analyse collaboration network data collected from 35 international organisations. Six strongly connected clusters are identified in the community. Evaluating reported reasons for these collaborations, we find that the two main motivations are related to relational characteristics of organisations, which interestingly are the most and least reported reasons in two of the most densely connected clusters of relationships. These findings are discussed through the lenses of resource dependency and network structural equivalence.

Online publication date: Fri, 27-Feb-2015

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