INTER–ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CAPACITY OF PUBLIC SECTOR INSTITUTIONS’CONTROL ENTITIES IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
INTER–ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATIVE CAPACITY OF PUBLIC SECTOR INSTITUTIONS’CONTROL ENTITIES IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Environmental challenges and natural disasters demand new tools to support theperformance of public institutions in emergency situations. This paper contributes to one of thefundamental objectives – inter–organizational collaboration, namely to the objective to shareexperience from the implementation of methods and tools and latest research results in supportof management in the new security environment. In addition, it focuses on the cognitive andhuman aspects of collaboration. The goal of the paper is to investigate the impact of differentfactors and tools for understanding, explaining, and measuring collaborative capacity ofpublic sector institutions’ control organism in emergency situations. The paper will presentintermediate results from the research on “Inter–organizational collaborative capacity ofpublic sector institutions’ control entities in emergency situations”. Based on a theoreticalmodel, a draft instrument was developed (i.e., a questionnaire) for data collection that can beused to 1) investigate the impact of different factors, 2) localize ineffi ciencies in public sectorinstitutions’ control organs, and 3) determine measures to achieve better organizationaleffectiveness of public sector institutions’ control entities in emergency situations.

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