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Humanitarian organizational collaboration: Information technologies as necessary but not sufficient
Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu
Carleen Maitland
Andrea H. Tapia
Kartikeya Bajpai
M.A. Santos, L.S., E. Portela
Organizations in the humanitarian relief field increasingly need to look outside their own boundaries and engage in a significant level of inter-organizational collaboration. In studying collaborative processes in the nonprofit context, researchers have used different theoretical approaches to investigate the motivations behind why organizations collaborate. Although these studies have contributed to shed some lights on these collaborative mechanisms, little is still known about the main factors that influence the decision of humanitarian organizations to engage into collaboration especially with regards to the implications of information technologies. In this paper, we explore factors for collaboration among members of the GlobalSympoNet, a network of organizations engaged in humanitarian information management. We analyze data collected through nineteen semi-structured interviews. We identified seven factors that could be grouped into three categories including structural, behavioral and organizational. Our findings also suggest that information technologies alone are not enough to motivate and maintain long lasting collaboration.
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=999
citekey:Louis-MarieNgamassiTchouakeu_etal2011
citation:Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Carleen Maitland, Andrea H. Tapia, & Kartikeya Bajpai. (2011). Humanitarian organizational collaboration: Information technologies as necessary but not sufficient. In E. Portela L. S. M.A. Santos (Ed.), 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011. Lisbon: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM.
2011
ConferencePaper
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Information management
Information systems
Information technology
Collaboration decision
Collaborative process
Humanitarian relief
Interorganizational collaboration
Organizational collaboration
Semi structured interviews
Theoretical approach
Three categories
Societies and institutions
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/tchouakeu/2011/999_Tchouakeu_etal2011.pdf
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
English
2411-3387
8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011
2011
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