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Table 3 Comparison between the Theoretical Framework and
Interview Findings
Drivers in the theoretical
framework
Interview findings
Illustrations or differences
EM capacity of local
governments
•
EM capacity enhancement
and maintenance is essential
and viewed as an important
part of local emergency
managers’ job duties.
•
Local
governments’
geographic and demographic
differences can influence their
level of EM capacity, which
changes the way local
governments respond to
emergencies and why they
engage
in
various
collaborations.
•
Community attributes and
local emergency managers’
leadership/capability
may
influence local governments’
EM capacity and further
change their rationales for the
types of collaboration they
engage in and how they deal
with disasters.
Internal factors
Shortages of financial,
human, and information
resources
Rationales for:
Vertical collaboration:
•
Grant purposes
•
Seek resources
•
Exchange information and
voice
Horizontal-interlocal
collaboration:
•
Seek resources
•
Provide resources
Horizontal-intersec
tor
al
collaboration:
•
Seek resources
•
Request intelligence
•
Provide consultations
•
Rationales
for
local
government
conducting
different types of collabo
-
ration vary.
•
Compared
with
local
government-based
vertical
collaboration, in which local
governments generally serve
the
role
of
resource
recipients, local government-
based horizontal collaboration
involves local governments
requesting
resources
or
information as well as
providing support, intelligence,
or consultation.
•
A big city can serve as a big
brother to take care of other
neighboring small munici
-
palities.
•
Local governments also want
their voices to be heard by the
state government.