2016/11/24 by Helena Hermansson
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Disaster Management and Resilience #Disaster Response and Management #Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
paper · doi:10.1177/0095399716680058
openalex publication_date 2016/11/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Local and civil society can play decisive roles in disaster response. Yet, the disaster management literature is unclear regarding the conditions that enable cross-sectoral collaboration. Using a collaborative governance framework and 44 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates how trust, pre-existing relations, interdependence, knowledge, and resources affect cross-sectoral collaboration during disaster response in Turkey. The results illustrate how these factors interact with system context factors, such as political compatibility, to facilitate or hinder cross-sectoral collaboration. The study concludes that cross-sectoral collaboration is no panacea for successful disaster response, but empirical examples also suggest that cross-sectoral collaboration can contribute to reducing suboptimal disaster response.