Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek

Background. Emergency management requires flexibility and adaptation to dynamic and changing circumstances. The urgent requirements and high standards of responsiveness in terms of emergency management depend on horizontal and vertical communication in that these are one of the main factors associated with the appropriate coordination of many essentially independent organisations.
Research aims. The paper attempts to identify the determinants of effective communication, particularly in regard to close coordination, as well as the role played by these processes in the management of local emergency networks.
Method. This work consists of a theory-based empirical study. It is qualitative in nature and the research method is based on both desk research and field research. The research was conducted as part of a research project entitled "Coordination, communication and trust as factors driving effective inter-organisational collaboration in the public safety management system " (DEC-2012/07/D/HS4/00537).
Key findings. As a result, the new role of communication as a factor associated with the appropriate coordination in local emergency networks is identified.

Background. Emergency management requires flexibility and adaptation to dynamic and changing circumstances. The urgent requirements and high standards of responsiveness in terms of emergency management depend on horizontal and vertical communication since this is of the main factors associated with the appropriate coordination of many essentially independent organisations.
Research aims. The paper attempts to identify the determinants of effective communication, particularly in regard to close coordination, as well as the role played by these processes in the management of local emergency networks.
Method. This work consists of a theory-based empirical study. It is qualitative in nature and the research method is based on both desk research and field research. The research was conducted as part of a research project entitled "Coordination, communication and trust as factors driving effective inter-organisational collaboration in the public safety management system " (DEC-2012/07/D/HS4/00537) financed by the National Science Centre.
Key findings. As a result, the new role of communication as a factor associated with the appropriate coordination in local emergency networks was identified
 

Background. Innovations in public management tend to be defined as creative ideas put into practice by management seeking to resolve persistent problems that are faced while pursuing the public interest. Inter-organizational collaboration fuels the effective accomplishment of ventures launched within organizations and is regarded as one of the methods for creating and implementing innovations.
Research aims. Therefore, the overarching objective of this paper is to investigate the correlations between inter-organizational collaboration and the creation of organizational innovations.
Method. The paper was drawn from literature studies and empirical research. It gives an insight into the requirements for inter-organizational collaboration in public management with an emphasis on creating innovations. Literature studies were partly illustrated using empirical findings from research conducted in 2010 in commune offices located in the south of Poland (in the Małopolskie province).
Key findings. Surveys were carried out which led to the affirmation that the needs and benefits, in terms of creation of innovations as part of inter-organizational collaboration in public management, attained visibility and recognition, although common practice within local government units fails to reaffirm this. Different replies to the implementation gaps of inter-organizational collaboration have been rendered, but there was no conclusive answer about how to achieve implementation.

Theoretical background: Inter-organisational collaboration is contemporarily the basis for functioning of a public sector organisation. However, it is not a simple process and it does not always help to achieve the assumed goals. Its course is determined by factors related to various aspects of an organisation’s activity, among which many have key significance.

Research aim: The main objective of this paper is to identify and rate the key factors contributing to effective inter-organisational collaboration in the public sector.

Methodology: The research is based on desk research methodology and the hermeneutic process within a focus group.

Key findings: As a result of the conducted research we identified the key factors of Inter-organisational collaboration in the public sector. We also evaluated the power of  influence and the power of relations of these factors, which enabled ascertaining which of them determine the success of collaboration between organisations.

Mapping of inter-organizational collaboration processes on the example of the activities carried out in public safety

Public safety management is a social process aimed at ensuring an optimal level of safety at an area of the specified administrative unit. The scope of public safety management extends from social policy, through regional policy, crime policy, to emergency management. This process is co-created by entities operating in the one administrative area under existing capabilities and limitations as well as the dynamic changes in the environment. However the literature points out the insufficient collaboration between public administrative units. Furthermore, the lack of a process approach can lead to disturbances in coordination and activities duplication. Therefore the goal of this paper is to identify and describe the collaboration processes implemented in the public safety management.