<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Gonçalves, Paulo</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Moshtari, Mohammad</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2013-12-09</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">The dissertation consists of three papers representing an early attempt to explore conceptually and empirically the  collaboration in a humanitarian setting. The contribution of the thesis is threefold: first, it frames the discussion on  collaboration in a humanitarian setting, and reviews the collaboration initiatives in practice among international  humanitarian actors. Second, it investigates the academic research studying the horizontal collaboration in humanitarian  operations and identifies four categories of factors - external factors, factors associated with donor’s role, inter- organizational factors and organizational factors - influencing collaboration among international HOs. Finally, building on  the evidence from practitioners’ reports, academic literature on collaboration within humanitarian sector and the insights  from inter-organizational relationship theories, it proposes and tests a theoretical model of the factors influencing  collaboration performance among international humanitarian NGOs. The study suggests that commitment and trust are  key drivers of collaboration performance among international humanitarian NGOs. Moreover, long term orientation,  resource complementarity, coordination capability and relational capability are antecedent factors influencing  collaborative performance through their effect on mutual trust, reciprocal commitment and relationship specific  investment.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318467</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318467</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318467/files/2013ECO013.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/urn:nbn:ch:rero-006-112792</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318467</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Inter-organizational relationships</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Collaborative initiatives</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Horizontal collaboration</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">International nongovernmental organizations</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Humanitarian operations</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Survey and partial least squares</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Essays on the collaboration among humanitarian organizations : with special reference to supply chain and operations management issues</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06</dc:type>
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