Inter-Organisational Coordination for Sustainable Local Governance: Public Safety Management in Poland

Barbara Kożuch and Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek
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Barbara Kożuch: Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 4 Str., Kraków 30-348, Poland
Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek: Faculty of Organisation and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelta 26 Str., Zabrze 41-800, Poland

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: The goal of this article is to examine the basic characteristics and factors that impact inter-organisational coordination in sustainable local governance to address: 1. What are the factors that effective inter-organisational coordination between independent units creating public safety system on local level in sustainable local governance depends on? 2. What are the principal features of inter-organisational coordination in the public safety management system studied in the context of sustainable local governance? The article’s goal was reached using desk research analysis and empirical research. The desk research covers an analysis of international scientific publications. In turn, the empirical research was based on the example of public safety management. It covered interviews with practitioners dealing with public safety and a hermeneutic process within a focus group of scholars. As a result of the conducted research, interdependencies between coordination and other factors of inter-organisational collaboration were identified and the process of inter-organisational coordination during the emergency situations was characterised.

Keywords: inter-organisational coordination; sustainable local governance; sustainability; inter-organisational collaboration; public safety management; emergency; business model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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