The Evolution of Multiplex Interorganizational Networks and Collaboration in a Community-Based Health Coalition

• In Event: B.E.S.T.: Communication Networks in and Between Organizations

Abstract

Although interorganizational relations often take the form of multiplex ties, multiplexity is generally less examined as a source of interorganizational collaboration. Taking an organizational trust perspective, this paper develops an integrated framework to understand key antecedents and processes leading to collaboration. Dynamic network analysis (SIENA) was employed to test three hypothesized effects on collaboration in a community-based health coalition network: network multiplexity, organizational status, and network transitivity. The results offered strong support for the effects of tie multiplexity and network transitivity, and partial support for the effect of organizational status, on the formation and maintenance of interorganizational collaboration.

Authors

• Wenlin Liu, U of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication

• Amanda M. Beacom, U of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication

• Lauren B. Frank, Portland State U

• Jonathan Nomachi, Community Health Councils

• Sonya Vasquez, Community Health Councils

• Lark Galloway-Gilliam, Community Health Councils