TY - JOUR
AU - O'Sullivan, Elizabethann
AB - The study empirically examined the value of interorganizational relations to voluntary associations; the data are from questionnaires sent torape crisis centers in the United States. Interorganizational cooperationwas studied as it was associated with structural variations and as it affected organizational effectiveness. No relationship was found betweenstructure and cooperation; however, centers with staff tended to havecommunity ties and more of them. The more centralized the decisionmaking, the more organizational contacts; the difference between thisand previous research seems to be due to differences in conceptualizationof centralization. Cooperation was not found to be related to demands forservices or speakers; there was a relationship to the extent of programsdesigned to train agency personnel. The number of interorganizationalcontacts was directly related to the number of volunteers active in acenter and to the number of minority-group members. It was concludedthat there are no benefits from expending undue effort to make community contact, nor are politically oriented groups, which eschew formalrelations, necessarily handicapped.
TI - Interorganizational Cooperation: How Effective for Grassroots Organizations?
JF - Group & Organization Studies
DO - 10.1177/105960117700200308
DA - 1977-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/interorganizational-cooperation-how-effective-for-grassroots-AGRup7ZiNR
SP - 347
EP - 358
VL - 2
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -