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An Exploratory Study of Structural Characteristics and Changes in Interorganizational Networks: Focus on Environmental NGOs

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2012, 23(3), pp.263-290
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

KIM SOUNG WAN 1

1한국고용정보원

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to explore how environmental NGOs formed interorganizational networks as environmental policies evolved, and also to analyze NGO networks in terms of their structural characteristics and changes. The relational approach revealed that under President Kim Young-Sam, this sector displayed network characteristics by interacting with the environmental union movement. Under President Kim Dae-Jung’s presidency, a new structural characteristic arose from the fact that different organizations corresponded with various environmental NGOs. Using the positional approach and the Euclidean distance between three environmental NGOs, the findings reveal that as changes occurred in the government, the Environmental Movement Organization and the Green Coalition became more closely entwined. This study also analyzed the changes within the overall network of environmental NGOs, which was found to undergo changes in response to the social and environmental shifts that occurred under each government. At the time of the early environmental movements, the environmental NGO sector displayed a network characteristic with a focus on one organization. Yet, in the first years of the Kim Dae-Jung administration, interorganizational networks began to form according to environmental issues, and by the time of the Roh Mu-Hyun presidency, network characteristics involved a similar central role for environmental NGOs and a focus on regional environmental problems in addition to wider environmental issues, and thus underwent a transformation into more pluralistic networks.

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