Community Collaboration: When the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

The qualitative data suggested that clearly stated goals, communication between the council members, the council membership make-up, and the communication between members and their home organization influenced the collaborative process. Councils with clearly stated goals, effective communication, and representation from all individuals and/or groups affected by the particular issue were more able to actively pursue their ultimate goal of elimination of family violence. Contrary to expectations, the empirical data did not reveal that the four mediating factors predicted sustained progress of a collaboration, but, suggested that these four components were interdependent. Although conceptually strong and supported by the literature, the factor analyses suggested that there was only one factor operating within this measure. The interaction among the mediating variables suggests that collaborations are interactive dynamic systems; thus, best understood from a systems perspective.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human and Community Development

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Borden, Lynne Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jean Peterson

• Psychology, Social

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9717253

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87200