Methods
Name one of the 3 counties in Florida examined in this study
Orange, Seminole, and Osceola
A trusted external colleague to whom an organizational leader turns for work-related advice
Professional friend
These help mitigate the negative influence of competition on interorganizational collaboration
Professional friendship networks
Public managers should invest resources in these to cultivate informal relationships among organizations (name one)
Mentorship
Coaching sessions
Intensive training sessions
Annual retreats
The two types of interorganizational competition in this study
Competition for government financial resources and competition for private donations
This type of collaboration involves the joint efforts of two or more organizations to address common issues or provide programs or services
Interorganizational collaboration
This type of competition can escalate into repeated and widening conflicts between opposing sides, cause distrust, reduce or destroy collaboration and can create a seriously fragmented service delivery network
Hostile competition
Public managers can work with what type of organizations to invest resources in cultivating information networks among nonprofit service provider leaders
Nonprofit foundations
Name one of the four substantive areas the researchers studied collaboration in
Case management, volunteer recruitment, grant writing, and joint housing service
The simultaneous competition and collaboration among organizations
"coopetition" phenomena
True or False: More frequent competition for government financial resources between two organizations, the less frequent the collaboration between the two
True
Organizational leaders in a professional friendship network can build this with other leaders
Trust
Professional friendship ties between these individuals were studied
Executive directors of homeless service providers
This occurs when there is demand for limited resources
Competition
Professional friendship networks allow organizational leaders to discuss big-picture strategies and to focus on this
Their shared mission
Future research may expand to cover collaboration in these other domains
Strategic planning and policy advocacy
Competition for government financial resources and private donations was hypothesized to have what type of association with the frequency of interorganizational collaboration
Negative association
Program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to major service areas to provide wrap-around homelessness services
Continuum of Care
In the homeless service network studied, organizations collaborated more in these two areas
Case management and housing services
Findings from study may not be generalized to organizations that have experienced
Unpleasant collaboration experience or low trust in collaboration