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managers’ capability and leadership, and past experience with
partners. The organizational external factors include the
perspectives of resource dependence on federal and state
governments, disaster magnitude, and community attributes
(Figure 1).
A. Emergency Management Capacity of Local
Governments
In public management research, organizational capacity is
always a critical issue and can be defined as an institution’s
ability to secure, develop, direct, and control its financial,
Figure 1 Theoretical Framework about Drivers of Local EM
Collaboration
Source: Chang (2012: 20).
Internal factors
•
Shortages of Financial, Human, and
Information Resources
•
Organizational attention
•
Mutual understanding
•
Institution/national standards
•
Emergency managers’ capability and
leadership
•
Past experience with partners
External factors
•
Resource dependence on federal and
state governments
•
Disaster magnitude
•
Community attributes
Vertical collaboration
Horizontal-interlocal
collaboration
Horizontal-intersectoral
collaboration
EM capacity:
Capability of local governments to
deal with emergencies and disasters