The formation of inter-organizational information sharing networks in public safety: Cartographic insights on rational choice and institutional explanations

Information Polity

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 13-29

  Williams, Christine B ^a   Dias, Martin ^a   Fedorowicz, Jane ^a   Jacobson, Dax ^a   Vilvovsky, Sonia ^a   Sawyer, Steve ^a   Tyworth, Michael ^a  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

e government; information and communication technology; information sharing; institutional theory; inter organizational collaboration; joined up government; Public safety; rational choice theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952965613     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-2009-0170     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. S. Ackroyd, R. Harper, J.A. Hughes, D. Shapiro and K. Soothill, New Technology and Practical Police Work: The Social Context of Technical Innovation, Open University Press, Buckingham, England, 1992.
2. R. Agranoff and M. McGuire, American federalism and the search for models of management, Public Administration Review 61(6) (2001), 671-682.
3. E.R. Alexander, How Organizations act Together: Interorganizational Coordination in Theory and Practice, Gordon and Breach, Australia, 1995.
4. A.W. Ando and K.L. Palmer, Getting on the Map: The Political Economy of State-level Electricity Restructuring, Resources for the Future (1998).
5. C. Baumont, C. Ertur and J. Le Gallo, Spatial Analysis of Employment and Population Density: The Case of the Agglomeration of Dijon 1999, Geographical Analysis 36(2) (2004), 146-176. (Pubitemid 38688692)
6. T. Beyle and M. Ferguson, Governors and the Executive Branch, in: Politics in the American States, V. Gray and R.L. Hanson, eds, CQ Press, Washington, DC, 2007.
7. B. Bozeman and S. Bretschneider, Public management information systems: Theory and prescription, Public Administration Review 46 (1986), 475-487.
8. Bureau of Justice Assistance, Mission Possible: Strong Governance Structures for the Integration of Justice Information Systems, US Department of Justice. http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/bja/192278.pdf.
9. M. Buslik and M.D. Maltz, Power to the People: Mapping and Information Sharing in the Chicago Police Department, 1999. http://tigger.uic.edu/ ̃mikem/Pwr2Ppl.PDF.
10. S.S. Dawes, T.A. Pardo and A.M. Cresswell, Designing Electronic Government Information Access Programs: A Holistic Approach, Government Information Quarterly 21(1) (2004), 3-23. (Pubitemid 38562010)
11. P.J. DiMaggio and W.W. Powell, The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields, American Sociological Review 48(2) (1983), 147-160.
12. J. Fedorowicz, U.J. Gelinas, J.L. Gogan and C.B. Williams, Strategic Alignment of Participant Motivations in EGovernment Collaborations: The Internet Payment Platform Pilot, Government Information Quarterly 26(1) (2008), 51-59.
13. J. Fedorowicz, J.L. Gogan and C.B. Williams, A collaborative network for first responders: Lessons from the CapWIN case, Government Information Quarterly 24(4) (2007), 785-807.
14. J.R. Gil-Garcia, Exploring the success factors of state website functionality: an empirical investigation, Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005, pp. 121-130.
15. J.R. Gil-Garcia and T.A. Pardo, E-government success factors: Mapping practical tools to theoretical foundations, Government Information Quarterly 22(2) (2005), 187-216. (Pubitemid 40864788)
16. J.R. Gil-Garcia, C.A. Schneider and T.A. Pardo, Effective Strategies in Justice Information Integration: A Brief Current Practices Review, Center for Technology in Government, 2004. http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/reports/ effective strategies.
17. Government Accountability Office, Homeland Security: Agency Plans, Implementation, and Challenges Regarding the National Strategy for Homeland Security, Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, 2005.
18. M. Granovetter, Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness, American Journal of Sociology 91(3) (1985), 481-510.
19. I. Gregory, Longitudinal Analysis of Age-and Gender-Specific Migration Patterns in England and Wales: A GIS-Based Approach, Social Science History 24(3) (2000), 471-503.
20. D.K. Kim, M. Ali, V.D. Thiem, J.-K. Park, L. von Seidlein and J. Clemens, Geographic analysis of shigellosis in Vietnam, Health & Place 14 (2008), 755-767.
21. E. Korteland and V. Bekkers, Diffusion of E-government innovations in the Dutch public sector: The case of digital community policing, Information Polity 12(3) (2007), 139-150.
22. P.K. Manning, Policing Contingencies, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003.
23. J.W. Meyer and B. Rowan, Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony, The American Journal of Sociology 83(2) (1977), 340-363.
24. H. Morton, Integrated Criminal Justice Information Systems, 2001. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/intjust/report01. htm.
25. National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), State CIO's Top Ten Policy and Technology Priorities for 2009, 2008. http://www.nascio.org/publications.
26. National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), Concept for Operations for Integrated Justice Information Sharing Systems, 2003. https://www.nascio.org/hotIssues/EA/ConOps2003.pdf.
27. A. Northrop, K.L. Kraemer and J.K. King, Police use of computers, Journal of Criminal Justice 23(3) (1995), 259-275.
28. E. Ostrom, Rational Choice Theory and Institutional Analysis: Toward Complementarity, The American Political Science Review 85(1) (1991), 237-243.
29. L.J. O'Toole and R.S. Montjoy, Interorganizational policy implementation: A theoretical perspective, Public Administration Review 44 (1984), 491-503.
30. T.A. Pardo, J.R. Gil-Garcia and G.B. Burke, Governance Structures in Cross-Boundary Information Sharing: Lessons from State and Local Criminal Justice Initiatives, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2008, 211-211.
31. S. Sawyer, J. Fedorowicz, M. Tyworth, M.L. Markus and C.B. Williams, A Taxonomy for Public Safety Networks, Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Philadelphia, 2007.
32. S. Sawyer, A. Tapia, L. Pesheck and J. Davenport, Mobility and the First Responder, Communications of the ACM 47(3) (2004), 62-65.
33. S. Sawyer and M. Tyworth, Integrated Criminal Justice: ARJIS Case Study, Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, San Diego, CA, 2006, pp. 47-48. (Pubitemid 46966990)
34. W.R. Scott, The Adolescence of Institutional Theory, Administrative Science Quarterly 32(4) (1987), 493-511.
35. W.R. Scott, Reflections on a Half-Century of Organizational Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology 30 (2004).
36. R. Shelby, September 11 and the Imperative of Reform in the US Intelligence Community: Additional Views of Senator Richard C. Shelby Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 2002. http://www.fas.org/irp/ congress/2002 rpt/shelby.pdf.
37. L.J. Siebert, Using GIS to Document, Visualize, and Interpret Tokyo's Spatial History, Social Science History 24(3) (2002), 537-574.
38. W.G. Skogan, S.M. Hartnett, J. DuBois, J. Bennis, S.Y. Kim, D. Rosenbaum et al., Policing Smarter Through IT: Learning From Chicago's Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR) System, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2003.
39. States News Service, Governor Rell Proposes Sweeping Reforms to Criminal Justice System, States News Service, January 8, 2008.
40. M.J.Taylor, R.C. Epper, T.K.Tolman and National Institute of Justice (US),Wireless Communications and Interoperability Among State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, US National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC, 1998.
41. P. Tingling and M. Parent, An exploration of enterprise technology selection and evaluation, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems 13(4) (2004), 329-354. (Pubitemid 40274946)
42. P.S. Tolbert, Institutional Environments and Resource Dependence: Sources of Administrative Structure in Institutions of Higher Education, Administrative Science Quarterly 30(1) (1985), 1-13. (Pubitemid 16123561)
43. A. Toots, Explaining Internet service quality in social security agencies using institutional theory, Information Polity 11(3) (2006), 273-282.
44. US Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2006.
45. J.A. Weiss, Pathways to cooperation among public agencies, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 7(1) (1987), 94-117.
46. C.B. Williams, S. Sawyer, J. Fedorowicz, M.L. Markus, M. Dias, D. Jacobson, M. Tyworth and S. Vilvovsky, Mapping Theory to Practice: A Cartographic Analysis of Public Safety Networks, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 18-21, 2008, pp. 171-180.