Conference proceeding
Crossing Borders, Organizations, Levels and Technologies: IS Collaboration in Humanitarian Relief
AMCIS 2010 PROCEEDINGS
01/01/2010
Abstract
Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly facing complex challenges due to the high frequency of natural disasters and the growing number of actors in the humanitarian relief sector. One of these complex challenges is the management of information. In an attempt to mitigate these challenges, NGOs are increasingly collaborating through inter-organizational structures such as collaboration bodies to find mechanisms to coordinate information technologies. These collaboration bodies facilitate four kinds of "cross" collaboration; 1) cross organization, 2) cross border, 3) cross levels, and 4) cross technology. Within each collaboration body the role and function of a project also takes on special significance as much of the cross collaboration activities are channeled through projects that cross all four types of collaboration. In this paper we examine four case studies set in two collaboration bodies focused on IT in the humanitarian sector.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Crossing Borders, Organizations, Levels and Technologies: IS Collaboration in Humanitarian Relief
- Creators
- Andrea H. Tapia - Pennsylvania State UniversityEdgar Maldonado - Pennsylvania State UniversityLouis-Marie Ngagamassi Tchouakeu - Pennsylvania State UniversityCarleen Maitland - Pennsylvania State UniversityKang Zhao - Pennsylvania State UniversityKartikeya Bajpai - Pennsylvania State University
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- AMCIS 2010 PROCEEDINGS
- Publisher
- Assoc Information Systems
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- CMMI-0624219 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380414802771
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