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Exploring the dynamics

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study their rationales for collaborating with local governments

in order to thoroughly understand cross-sector collaboration.

Moreover, collaboration is a strategy for local governments to

effectively and efficiently respond to any expected and

unexpected emergencies and decrease local disaster

vulnerability. In other words, the impacts of collaboration must

be examined and not just be viewed as the end goal. This study

also suggests that future research further investigate the effects

of three types of collaboration on improvements in local EM

performance related to stages of mitigation, preparedness,

response, and recovery.