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NETWORK STRUCTURE, MULTIPLEXITY, AND EVOLUTION AS INFLUENCES ON COMMUNITY‐BASED PARTICIPATORY INTERVENTIONS
Author(s) -
Wang Rong,
Tanjasiri Sora Park,
Palmer Paula,
Valente Thomas W.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.21801
Subject(s) - reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , psychological intervention , context (archaeology) , community based participatory research , sociology , reciprocal , participatory action research , transitive relation , knowledge management , public relations , social psychology , psychology , political science , computer science , geography , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , combinatorics , psychiatry , anthropology , archaeology
This study applies an ecological perspective to the context of community‐based participatory research (CBPR). Specifically, it examines how endogenous and exogenous factors influence the dynamics of CBPR partnerships, including the tendency toward reciprocity and transitivity, the organizational type, the level of resource sufficiency, the level of organizational influence, and the perceived CBPR effect on organizations. The results demonstrate that network structure is related to the selection and retention of interorganizational networks over time, and organizations of the same type are more likely to form partnerships with each other. It shows that the dynamics of the CBPR initiative presented in this article were driven by the structure of the interorganizational networks rather than their individual organizational attributes. Implications for sustaining CBPR partnerships are drawn from the findings.