Understanding the Co-Provision of Disaster-Related Services in the United States: Universities and Colleges as Community Stakeholders

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yu, Suyang; Gerber, Brian J.
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Springfield; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.13056
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 855-873
• 关键词: public-services; higher-education; coproduction; management; creation; sector; preparedness; resilience; network; ORGANIZATIONS

摘要

A whole community strategy is central to disaster management and community resilience in the United States. However, the specific means by which community-level stakeholders in the private and nonprofit sectors function as partners with government agencies in providing key disaster-related services are currently underexamined. Here, we present unique data assessing one significant community stakeholder category: US universities and colleges. Doing so presents a useful opportunity to examine how disaster service co-provision functions in practice. Elaborating on prior theory in this area and using a public service logic perspective, we examine emergency preparedness and response and find, intuitively, factors such as internal organizational capacity help explain co-provision actions. However, we also demonstrate the importance of other domain characteristics. For instance, administrators' sense of community responsibility affects service co-provision management. Further, organizational behavior related to routine local hazard issues is not necessarily predictive of atypical cases-such as pandemic-related actions.