Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation

Past research has identified the importance of cooperation among community-based organizations from different sectors to address public health problems such as insufficient physical activity. However, little is known about how and why interorganizational cooperation occurs. The present study sought...

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Autores principales:	Hagen Wäsche, Laura Wolbring, Alexander Woll
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:648c360144674e1184f6c78edebfea022021-11-25T06:10:53ZPhysical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation1932-6203https://doaj.org/article/648c360144674e1184f6c78edebfea022021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8592486/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Past research has identified the importance of cooperation among community-based organizations from different sectors to address public health problems such as insufficient physical activity. However, little is known about how and why interorganizational cooperation occurs. The present study sought to analyze the structure and emergent patterns of interorganizational cooperation within a network promoting physical activity based in an urban district neighborhood of a city in Southwestern Germany. Survey data on cooperative relations among 61 network organizations and organizational attributes (e.g., possession of sport facilities) were collected. Social network analysis was applied to examine network properties and exponential random graph models were estimated to test hypotheses concerning mechanisms and conditions of cooperative tie formation. The results show that the network of cooperation is sparse but characterized by a tendency for cooperation to occur in triangular structures. Other significant mechanisms of cooperative tie formation are preferential attachment, with the community department for education and sports being the most central network actor, and heterophily regarding the cooperation of organizations from different sectors. This study provides valid and reliable findings on conditions of network formation and significant mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation in the field of physical activity promotion. Knowledge about these mechanisms can help to manage networks effectively and efficiently and reveal potentials for improvement and intensification of interorganizational cooperation in both the present and other research areas of health promotion.Hagen WäscheLaura WolbringAlexander WollPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Hagen Wäsche Laura Wolbring Alexander Woll Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation
description	Past research has identified the importance of cooperation among community-based organizations from different sectors to address public health problems such as insufficient physical activity. However, little is known about how and why interorganizational cooperation occurs. The present study sought to analyze the structure and emergent patterns of interorganizational cooperation within a network promoting physical activity based in an urban district neighborhood of a city in Southwestern Germany. Survey data on cooperative relations among 61 network organizations and organizational attributes (e.g., possession of sport facilities) were collected. Social network analysis was applied to examine network properties and exponential random graph models were estimated to test hypotheses concerning mechanisms and conditions of cooperative tie formation. The results show that the network of cooperation is sparse but characterized by a tendency for cooperation to occur in triangular structures. Other significant mechanisms of cooperative tie formation are preferential attachment, with the community department for education and sports being the most central network actor, and heterophily regarding the cooperation of organizations from different sectors. This study provides valid and reliable findings on conditions of network formation and significant mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation in the field of physical activity promotion. Knowledge about these mechanisms can help to manage networks effectively and efficiently and reveal potentials for improvement and intensification of interorganizational cooperation in both the present and other research areas of health promotion.
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title	Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation
title_short	Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation
title_full	Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation
title_fullStr	Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation
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Physical activity promotion in an urban district: Analyzing the mechanisms of interorganizational cooperation

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