Simon A Andrew
Biographic Data
| ID | 5916662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon A Andrew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon A |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrew |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREW S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Working to Move the Transportation Disadvantaged—Challenges for Community-Based Transportation Providers
Transportation-disadvantaged (TD) populations, including many older adults and people with disabilities, often face mobility barriers linked to fragmented transportation services, limited information about available ride options, and weak coordination across providers. While One-Call/One-Click (1C1C) systems have emerged as solutions to centralize transportation information, support trip planning, and coordinate services across public, nonprofit,…
Missing Meals and Missed Rides
Food insecurity is not only shaped by behavioral, socioeconomic, and demographic factors but is also determined by an individual’s ability to access food in their community. Analyzing new survey data from a large city located in the southwest USA, this research adds to current dialogues on food insecurity among older adults and individuals with disabilities in economically disadvantaged communities. Using logistic regression, the findings provide…
Interorganizational Collaboration for the Implementation of Hazard Mitigation Strategies
This study examines patterns of interorganizational collaboration for hazard mitigation in metropolitan regions. Metropolitan regions whose populations reside in vulnerable places may experience extreme events. Facilitation of collective actions among organizations is critical for building resilient urban communities. Although the literature highlights the importance of interorganizational collaboration in disaster management, patterns of interor…
Building Resilient Organizations
This study investigates the effects of interorganizational networking strategies on organizational resilience as a network outcome. Little research examines the impacts of network structure on the organizational outcomes in the public service delivery although individual organizations’ success is critical for the whole network. Using survey data collected in two South Korean metropolitan areas, this study tests the effects of bonding and bridging…
Health information, attitudes and actions at religious venues
Mass gatherings for sporting events, music shows, and religious needs continue to grow in our urban areas, requiring local authorities to develop safety procedures to mitigate the challenges of keeping the attendees safe. These challenges are even more pronounced at pilgrimage venues where social distancing and contact avoidance are difficult as pilgrims are required to perform various rituals in close proximity with others, in a sequential manne…
Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 Mers Outbreak in South Korea
Following the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this research aims to examine the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness, which is defined as joint efforts to improve quality of service provision, cost savings, and coordination. We tested the bonding and bridging effects on collaboration effectiveness during the MERS outbreak response by utilizing an institutional coll…
Risk communication for religious crowds
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe empirical research intended to gauge the channels of risk information and their perceived effectiveness expressed by Hajj pilgrims in 2013 to better inform risk-reduction strategies at crowded religious events. Design/methodology/approach To do so, a research team partially funded by the Transportation and Crowd Management Center of Research Excellence from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia conducted fac…
Effect of Natural Disasters on Local Economies
One of the main objectives of this paper is to provide insight to understand the effect of natural disasters on local government finance. That is, to analyze local governments’ sales tax revenues after Hurricane Ike. Three Texas cities are examined: League City, Pearland, and Sugarland. Based on data collected from the Texas Comptroller’s Office and the US Census, we found local governments experience a short-term increase in sales tax revenues a…
Sources of organisational resiliency during the Thailand floods of 2011
Based on the Institutional Collective Action framework, this research tests the impact of two competing hypotheses-bonding and bridging-on enhancing organisational resiliency. The bonding hypothesis posits that organisational resiliency can be achieved if an organisation works closely with others, whereas the bridging hypothesis argues that such a structure places considerable stress on an organisation and advocates for an organisation to positio…
Does transformational leadership build resilient public and nonprofit organizations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of transformational leadership – broadly defined as an individual who is visionary, innovative, inspirational and sensitive to the needs of followers – on the level of organizational resiliency. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs multiple hierarchical regression analysis to test the causal relationship between transformational leadership and organizational resiliency by ut…
Intergovernmental Cooperation in the Provision of Public Safety
This article examines how monitoring mechanisms embedded in interlocal agreements ( ILAs ) are associated with vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations. The authors hypothesize that ILAs established by local governments with higher‐level governments are likely to rely on a clearly specified set of rules to establish an administrative structure, whereas ILAs established by local governments with other local governments rely on associati…
Grass-Root Organisations, Intergovernmental Collaboration, and Emergency Preparedness
This paper examines the importance of grass-root emergency response groups in emergency preparedness. Consistent with the Institutional Collective Action framework, we highlight key constraints associated with local government strategies of mutual resource exchange and barriers to intergovernmental collaboration. We examine local governments’ emergency preparedness using survey data collected in the North Central Texas region. We employed a simpl…
How do you warn them if they speak only Spanish? Challenges for organizations in communicating risk to Colonias residents in Texas, USA
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the information channels used by public and nonprofit organizations to communicate disaster risk information to Colonias residents in Hidalgo County, Texas. It seeks to find creative and proactive solutions for organizations to improve risk education to these constituents. Design/methodology/approach – Initially a snowball sampling technique was used to conduct six face-to-face interviews. This wa…
Mitigating Uncertainty and Risk in Planning for Regional Preparedness
The nature of emergency preparedness is that problems are seldom immediate and continuous, and effective emergency planning requires the involvement and sustained commitment of multiple organisations and their personnel. It is proposed that the level of participation by local organisations in formal regional planning activities is related to the social position their managers play in local planning networks. Local organisations embedded in bondin…
The effect of housing assistance arrangements on household recovery
Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety
Although much has been written about interlocal agreements for the delivery of services, few studies have examined the factors that influence the establishment of different types of multilateral agreements (MLAs). To address this lacuna, the authors draw a distinction between an adaptive and restrictive MLA and seek to understand why local governments enter into one type of arrangement over the other. The authors build our theoretical argument on…
An adaptive governance approach to disaster-related behavioural health services
This paper explores the provision of disaster-related behavioural and mental health (DBH) services as a problem of institutional collective action in the United States. This study reviews the challenges that providers have in surmounting multi-organizational disconnects, unstable professional legitimacy, ambiguous information, and shifting disaster needs in developing a system for delivering DBH services. Based on the adaptive governance framewor…
Understanding Horizontal and Vertical Relations in the Context of Economic Development Joint Venture Agreements
A joint venture agreement is one type of governance mechanism that can be adopted by local governments to address collective action problems. While much of the current research discusses the importance of regional cooperation, few studies explore the type of relations formed with institutional actors in the context of interjurisdictional agreements. The authors address this gap in the literature by investigating the association among the transact…
Core–Peripheral Structure and Regional Governance
Paul Krugman’s work is much celebrated in the fields of international trade and economic geography, recognized with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. Although his work is less prominent in public administration, it has important implications for the study of political fragmentation, collaboration, economic development, and service delivery in metropolitan areas. The authors discuss how Krugman’s core–periphery model adds a critical piece to the …
An Expression of Appreciation
Regional Integration Through Contracting Networks
This article advances two general hypotheses, bonding and bridging, to explain the process by which local governments decide whether to enter into contracts. The characteristics of goods and services are important factors in these decisions. In high asset-specificity transactions, the bridging hypothesis predicts local governments will establish ties with only a few “high status” actors, whereas in transactions for services with measurement diffi…
Regional Integration Through Contracting Networks
This article advances two general hypotheses, bonding and bridging, to explain the process by which local governments decide whether to enter into contracts. The characteristics of goods and services are important factors in these decisions. In high asset-specificity transactions, the bridging hypothesis predicts local governments will establish ties with only a few “high status” actors, whereas in transactions for services with measurement diffi…
Mitigating Uncertainty and Risk in Planning for Regional Preparedness
The nature of emergency preparedness is that problems are seldom immediate and continuous, and effective emergency planning requires the involvement and sustained commitment of multiple organisations and their personnel. It is proposed that the level of participation by local organisations in formal regional planning activities is related to the social position their managers play in local planning networks. Local organisations embedded in bondin…
Understanding Horizontal and Vertical Relations in the Context of Economic Development Joint Venture Agreements
A joint venture agreement is one type of governance mechanism that can be adopted by local governments to address collective action problems. While much of the current research discusses the importance of regional cooperation, few studies explore the type of relations formed with institutional actors in the context of interjurisdictional agreements. The authors address this gap in the literature by investigating the association among the transact…
Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety
Although much has been written about interlocal agreements for the delivery of services, few studies have examined the factors that influence the establishment of different types of multilateral agreements (MLAs). To address this lacuna, the authors draw a distinction between an adaptive and restrictive MLA and seek to understand why local governments enter into one type of arrangement over the other. The authors build our theoretical argument on…
An adaptive governance approach to disaster-related behavioural health services
This paper explores the provision of disaster-related behavioural and mental health (DBH) services as a problem of institutional collective action in the United States. This study reviews the challenges that providers have in surmounting multi-organizational disconnects, unstable professional legitimacy, ambiguous information, and shifting disaster needs in developing a system for delivering DBH services. Based on the adaptive governance framewor…
Sources of organisational resiliency during the Thailand floods of 2011
Based on the Institutional Collective Action framework, this research tests the impact of two competing hypotheses-bonding and bridging-on enhancing organisational resiliency. The bonding hypothesis posits that organisational resiliency can be achieved if an organisation works closely with others, whereas the bridging hypothesis argues that such a structure places considerable stress on an organisation and advocates for an organisation to positio…
Intergovernmental Cooperation in the Provision of Public Safety
This article examines how monitoring mechanisms embedded in interlocal agreements ( ILAs ) are associated with vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations. The authors hypothesize that ILAs established by local governments with higher‐level governments are likely to rely on a clearly specified set of rules to establish an administrative structure, whereas ILAs established by local governments with other local governments rely on associati…
Grass-Root Organisations, Intergovernmental Collaboration, and Emergency Preparedness
This paper examines the importance of grass-root emergency response groups in emergency preparedness. Consistent with the Institutional Collective Action framework, we highlight key constraints associated with local government strategies of mutual resource exchange and barriers to intergovernmental collaboration. We examine local governments’ emergency preparedness using survey data collected in the North Central Texas region. We employed a simpl…
Core–Peripheral Structure and Regional Governance
Paul Krugman’s work is much celebrated in the fields of international trade and economic geography, recognized with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. Although his work is less prominent in public administration, it has important implications for the study of political fragmentation, collaboration, economic development, and service delivery in metropolitan areas. The authors discuss how Krugman’s core–periphery model adds a critical piece to the …
The effect of housing assistance arrangements on household recovery
Effect of Natural Disasters on Local Economies
One of the main objectives of this paper is to provide insight to understand the effect of natural disasters on local government finance. That is, to analyze local governments’ sales tax revenues after Hurricane Ike. Three Texas cities are examined: League City, Pearland, and Sugarland. Based on data collected from the Texas Comptroller’s Office and the US Census, we found local governments experience a short-term increase in sales tax revenues a…
An Expression of Appreciation
Regional Integration Through Contracting Networks
This article advances two general hypotheses, bonding and bridging, to explain the process by which local governments decide whether to enter into contracts. The characteristics of goods and services are important factors in these decisions. In high asset-specificity transactions, the bridging hypothesis predicts local governments will establish ties with only a few “high status” actors, whereas in transactions for services with measurement diffi…
Core–Peripheral Structure and Regional Governance
Paul Krugman’s work is much celebrated in the fields of international trade and economic geography, recognized with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. Although his work is less prominent in public administration, it has important implications for the study of political fragmentation, collaboration, economic development, and service delivery in metropolitan areas. The authors discuss how Krugman’s core–periphery model adds a critical piece to the …
Understanding Horizontal and Vertical Relations in the Context of Economic Development Joint Venture Agreements
A joint venture agreement is one type of governance mechanism that can be adopted by local governments to address collective action problems. While much of the current research discusses the importance of regional cooperation, few studies explore the type of relations formed with institutional actors in the context of interjurisdictional agreements. The authors address this gap in the literature by investigating the association among the transact…
The effect of housing assistance arrangements on household recovery
Regional Cooperation and Multilateral Agreements in the Provision of Public Safety
Although much has been written about interlocal agreements for the delivery of services, few studies have examined the factors that influence the establishment of different types of multilateral agreements (MLAs). To address this lacuna, the authors draw a distinction between an adaptive and restrictive MLA and seek to understand why local governments enter into one type of arrangement over the other. The authors build our theoretical argument on…
An adaptive governance approach to disaster-related behavioural health services
This paper explores the provision of disaster-related behavioural and mental health (DBH) services as a problem of institutional collective action in the United States. This study reviews the challenges that providers have in surmounting multi-organizational disconnects, unstable professional legitimacy, ambiguous information, and shifting disaster needs in developing a system for delivering DBH services. Based on the adaptive governance framewor…
Mitigating Uncertainty and Risk in Planning for Regional Preparedness
The nature of emergency preparedness is that problems are seldom immediate and continuous, and effective emergency planning requires the involvement and sustained commitment of multiple organisations and their personnel. It is proposed that the level of participation by local organisations in formal regional planning activities is related to the social position their managers play in local planning networks. Local organisations embedded in bondin…
How do you warn them if they speak only Spanish? Challenges for organizations in communicating risk to Colonias residents in Texas, USA
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the information channels used by public and nonprofit organizations to communicate disaster risk information to Colonias residents in Hidalgo County, Texas. It seeks to find creative and proactive solutions for organizations to improve risk education to these constituents. Design/methodology/approach – Initially a snowball sampling technique was used to conduct six face-to-face interviews. This wa…
Does transformational leadership build resilient public and nonprofit organizations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of transformational leadership – broadly defined as an individual who is visionary, innovative, inspirational and sensitive to the needs of followers – on the level of organizational resiliency. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs multiple hierarchical regression analysis to test the causal relationship between transformational leadership and organizational resiliency by ut…
Intergovernmental Cooperation in the Provision of Public Safety
This article examines how monitoring mechanisms embedded in interlocal agreements ( ILAs ) are associated with vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations. The authors hypothesize that ILAs established by local governments with higher‐level governments are likely to rely on a clearly specified set of rules to establish an administrative structure, whereas ILAs established by local governments with other local governments rely on associati…
Grass-Root Organisations, Intergovernmental Collaboration, and Emergency Preparedness
This paper examines the importance of grass-root emergency response groups in emergency preparedness. Consistent with the Institutional Collective Action framework, we highlight key constraints associated with local government strategies of mutual resource exchange and barriers to intergovernmental collaboration. We examine local governments’ emergency preparedness using survey data collected in the North Central Texas region. We employed a simpl…
Effect of Natural Disasters on Local Economies
One of the main objectives of this paper is to provide insight to understand the effect of natural disasters on local government finance. That is, to analyze local governments’ sales tax revenues after Hurricane Ike. Three Texas cities are examined: League City, Pearland, and Sugarland. Based on data collected from the Texas Comptroller’s Office and the US Census, we found local governments experience a short-term increase in sales tax revenues a…
Sources of organisational resiliency during the Thailand floods of 2011
Based on the Institutional Collective Action framework, this research tests the impact of two competing hypotheses-bonding and bridging-on enhancing organisational resiliency. The bonding hypothesis posits that organisational resiliency can be achieved if an organisation works closely with others, whereas the bridging hypothesis argues that such a structure places considerable stress on an organisation and advocates for an organisation to positio…
Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 Mers Outbreak in South Korea
Following the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this research aims to examine the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness, which is defined as joint efforts to improve quality of service provision, cost savings, and coordination. We tested the bonding and bridging effects on collaboration effectiveness during the MERS outbreak response by utilizing an institutional coll…
Risk communication for religious crowds
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe empirical research intended to gauge the channels of risk information and their perceived effectiveness expressed by Hajj pilgrims in 2013 to better inform risk-reduction strategies at crowded religious events. Design/methodology/approach To do so, a research team partially funded by the Transportation and Crowd Management Center of Research Excellence from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia conducted fac…
Health information, attitudes and actions at religious venues
Mass gatherings for sporting events, music shows, and religious needs continue to grow in our urban areas, requiring local authorities to develop safety procedures to mitigate the challenges of keeping the attendees safe. These challenges are even more pronounced at pilgrimage venues where social distancing and contact avoidance are difficult as pilgrims are required to perform various rituals in close proximity with others, in a sequential manne…
Building Resilient Organizations
This study investigates the effects of interorganizational networking strategies on organizational resilience as a network outcome. Little research examines the impacts of network structure on the organizational outcomes in the public service delivery although individual organizations’ success is critical for the whole network. Using survey data collected in two South Korean metropolitan areas, this study tests the effects of bonding and bridging…
Interorganizational Collaboration for the Implementation of Hazard Mitigation Strategies
This study examines patterns of interorganizational collaboration for hazard mitigation in metropolitan regions. Metropolitan regions whose populations reside in vulnerable places may experience extreme events. Facilitation of collective actions among organizations is critical for building resilient urban communities. Although the literature highlights the importance of interorganizational collaboration in disaster management, patterns of interor…
Missing Meals and Missed Rides
Food insecurity is not only shaped by behavioral, socioeconomic, and demographic factors but is also determined by an individual’s ability to access food in their community. Analyzing new survey data from a large city located in the southwest USA, this research adds to current dialogues on food insecurity among older adults and individuals with disabilities in economically disadvantaged communities. Using logistic regression, the findings provide…
Working to Move the Transportation Disadvantaged—Challenges for Community-Based Transportation Providers
Transportation-disadvantaged (TD) populations, including many older adults and people with disabilities, often face mobility barriers linked to fragmented transportation services, limited information about available ride options, and weak coordination across providers. While One-Call/One-Click (1C1C) systems have emerged as solutions to centralize transportation information, support trip planning, and coordinate services across public, nonprofit,…
Business (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Computer security (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (6 works) · Engineering (5 works)