eprintid: 9346
rev_number: 11
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datestamp: 2016-03-02 07:52:34
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Ihm, J
creators_name: Shumate, M
creators_name: Bello-Bravo, J
creators_name: Atouba, Y
creators_name: Ba, M N
creators_name: Dabire-Binso, C L
creators_name: Pittendrigh, B R
icrisatcreators_name: Ba, M N
affiliation: Northwestern University (Evanston)
affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Illinois)
affiliation: University of Texas (El Paso)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Niamey)
affiliation: Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA) (Ouagadougou)
country: USA
country: Niger
country: Burkina Faso
title: How do Service Providers and Clients Perceive Interorganizational Networks?
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2
divisions: D4
crps: crp1.4
full_text_status: public
keywords: Interorganizational networks, Nongovernmental organizations, NGOs, Development communication, Organizational fields, Cognitive social structures
abstract: Interorganizational networks are important structures for both service providers, who must navigate them as part of their organizational roles, and clients, who use them for the purposes of receiving benefits. This research develops and tests a conceptual model that explains some of the differences in the ways that these two groups perceive these networks. Drawing on surveys/interviews with 200 clients and 63 service providers of agricultural development training in Burkina Faso, this research demonstrates that clients perceive interorganizational networks differently than service providers. In particular, these results demonstrate that service providers perceive more organizations in the network, more competitive and collaborative ties among those organizations, and more competitive ties per organization than clients. From these results, we draw implications for social network, development communication, and organizational fields’ research.
date: 2015-10
date_type: published
publication: VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
volume: 26
number: 05
publisher: Springer US
pagerange: 1769-1785
id_number: 10.1007/s11266-014-9515-5
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1573-7888
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9515-5
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related_url_type: pub
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citation:   Ihm, J and Shumate, M and Bello-Bravo, J and Atouba, Y and Ba, M N and Dabire-Binso, C L and Pittendrigh, B R  (2015) How do Service Providers and Clients Perceive Interorganizational Networks?  VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26 (05).  pp. 1769-1785.  ISSN 1573-7888     
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