Article
Modeling emerging coalitions in the context of inter-organizational networks: A case study of humanitarian coordination
International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems
(2009)
Abstract
Forming coalitions and working collaboratively are important means of inter-organizational coordination. During coordination activities, organization's evaluation of candidate collaborative projects and subsequent decisions on forming coali-tions are often influenced by the ideas of their peers in the inter-organizational network. Using humanitarian coordination as a case study, we propose a formal model for the emergence of coalitions in the context of inter-organizational networks. This model incorporates both the characteristics of orgnaizations and the inter-organizational network as factors for network influence. It has been implemented in an agent-based simulation for the study of humanitarian coordination.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Louis Ngamassi, Kang Zhao, John Yen and Carleen F. Maitland. "Modeling emerging coalitions in the context of inter-organizational networks: A case study of humanitarian coordination" International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/louis-ngamassi/17/
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