Exploring network mechanisms to organizations’ influence reputation: a case of collaborative disaster response

This study examines the different mechanisms through which network configurations explain organizations' influence reputation in a collaborative disaster response network. Using network data collected from public and non-profit organizations who participated in the disaster response of 2016 Jiangsu Tornado, the study finds that organizations’ influence reputation is explained both by how well organizations are connected in the network (connectivity degree), and with whom they are connected (composition of ego networks). Evidence from two types of network ties (communication and coordination) in the disaster response highlights the different effects of network configurations associated with different levels of network activities.