Value of inter-organizational collaboration in digital government projects

ABSTRACT

Collaborative approaches to public management are generally known to represent sources of public value. However, certain theoretical and empirical gaps in understanding this process of value creation persist. We adopt a resource-based view to analyse how public and private collaborations moderate relations among resources and processes and creation of public value. Our results show that collaboration with private organizations negatively moderates the effect of resources on public value creation and positively moderates the effect of processes on public value creation. Collaboration within the public sector positively moderates the effect of resources but not the effect of processes.

KEYWORDS:

• Resource-based view
• public–private collaboration
• public–public collaboration
• public value management
• survey research

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Notes on contributors

Sergio Picazo-Vela

Sergio Picazo-Vela Sergio Picazo-Vela is a professor in the Business Administration Department at the Business School of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, he is member of the Mexican National Research System. He received his PhD in business administration from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research interests include e-government, e-commerce, information technology (IT) outsourcing and social media sites. His research has been published in different peer-reviewed journals such as Government Information Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Computers and Human Behavior, and Competitiveness Review.

Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez

Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez is a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Universidad de las Américas Puebla in México since 2006. She holds a PhD in management science from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, France. She is a member of the Mexican National Research System. Her research interests focus on human resource management and IT management. Her research has been published in journals such as Government Information Quarterly, Competitiveness Review and Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy.

François Duhamel

Francois Duhamel Francois Duhamel is professor in the Department of International Business in the School of Business and Economics at the Universidad de Las Américas Puebla in México since 2006. He received his PhD in business administration with a specialization in strategic management in 2006 from HEC Paris. His main research interests include commercialization of innovations, strategic outsourcing and international supply chain management. He is a member of the Mexican National Research System.

Dolores E. Luna

Dolores E. Luna Dolores E. Luna is a professor in the Industrial, Mechanical and Logistics Engineering Department at Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México. She is member of the National Researchers System. Her research interests include e-government, logistics and design and analysis of manufacturing systems.

Luis F. Luna-Reyes

Luis F. Luna-Reyes Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes is an associate professor of public administration at the University at Albany in Albany, NY. He holds a PhD. in information science from the University at Albany, and he is also a member of the Mexican National Research System. His research focuses on electronic government and on modelling collaboration processes in the development of ITs across functional and organizational boundaries.