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Effects of State Steering Strategies on Development of  Inter-Organizational Partnerships by Small Community Water Systems

国家指导战略对小型社区水系统组织间伙伴关系发展的影响

基本信息

批准号：
2150578
负责人：
Anita Milman
金额：
$ 35.11万
依托单位：
University of Massachusetts Amherst
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150578&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Effects State Steering Strategies Development

项目摘要

This research examines the effects of policies seeking to encourage partnership formation among organizations. Partnerships between organizations may provide a variety of benefits. Through partnerships, organizations can share expertise and resources. Organizations can also take advantage of other gains made possible by working together. To encourage formation of partnerships among organizations, governments may implement policies that seek to increase awareness of the potential benefits of partnerships; that facilitate partnership formation; that remove barriers to partnership formation; and/or that incentivize partnerships. The extent to which such policies lead to partnership formation will depend on whether the policies address the primary factors inhibiting partnership formation. As organizations differ in the barriers they face and the benefits they might derive from partnerships, the effects of state policies may vary across organizations. To improve understandings of how policies influence partnership formation, this research evaluates a range of policy approaches for encouraging partnership formation as well as how multiple concurrent policies interact with one another. Specifically, the research examines the response of small community water systems in the USA to policies seeking to steer development of water system partnerships. Most states in the USA have adopted one or more policies to encourage partnership formation by water systems. Those policies vary in whether their approach is enabling, authority-based, information-based, or incentive-based. The research analyzes the effects of these state policies, as well as how those effects and the critical barriers to partnership formation vary with the institutional structures of small community water systems (e.g., municipal, special district, community-owned, private) and with the forms of partnership that may be developed (e.g., informal, contracting, joint powers, consolidation). A mixed-methods approach is utilized: data collection entails both a survey of small community water systems across the USA and interviews with water system representatives and state-primacy agencies. Results from the research will provide insights regarding the points of intervention that serve to catalyze differing forms of partnerships and the impacts of linking multiple concurrent policies. Results will also illuminate how the effects of policies vary across a diversity of organizational structures.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项研究审查了旨在鼓励组织间建立伙伴关系的政策的效果。各组织之间的伙伴关系可带来各种好处。通过伙伴关系，各组织可以分享专门知识和资源。各组织还可以利用通过共同努力可能取得的其他成果。为鼓励各组织之间结成伙伴关系，政府可实施政策，设法提高对伙伴关系潜在好处的认识;促进结成伙伴关系;消除结成伙伴关系的障碍;和/或激励结成伙伴关系。这些政策在多大程度上促成伙伴关系的形成，将取决于这些政策是否解决了阻碍伙伴关系形成的主要因素。由于各组织面临的障碍和从伙伴关系中获得的利益各不相同，国家政策的影响可能因组织而异。为了提高政策如何影响伙伴关系的形成的理解，本研究评估了一系列的政策方法，鼓励伙伴关系的形成，以及如何多个并发的政策相互作用。具体而言，研究探讨了在美国的小社区水系统的政策寻求引导水系统的伙伴关系的发展的反应。美国大多数州都采取了一项或多项政策，鼓励水系统建立伙伴关系。这些政策的做法各不相同，包括扶持性、权威性、信息性或激励性。该研究分析了这些国家政策的影响，以及这些影响和伙伴关系形成的关键障碍如何随小型社区供水系统的体制结构而变化（例如，市政、特区、社区所有、私营）以及可能发展的伙伴关系形式（例如，非正式、订约、联合权力、合并）。采用混合方法的方法：数据收集需要在美国各地的小社区水系统的调查和采访水系统的代表和国家首要机构。研究结果将提供关于有助于促进不同形式伙伴关系的干预点的见解，以及将多个并行政策联系起来的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。