Maintaining Inter-Organizational Relationships 1
Maintaining Inter-Organizational Relationships that Build Civil Society
Abstract
This paper describes the maintenance of relationships among civil society organizations
two years following their participation in the Croatian transformation to a democratic nation. It
presents the results of an inter-organizational network analysis among 18 Croatian civil society
organizations and compares two points in time. The first point in time was an inter-
organizational network analysis during the the democratic elections of 2000 (Author 1,
forthcoming). This paper provides the inter-organizational network analysis two years following
this election, during a time depicted by maintenance -- not creation -- of civil society and
democracy. This paper describes the current status of the system and compares the network
changes over time. Network relationships are based on the theories of cooperation-competition
and structural holes and describe the roles of various organizations in the maintenance of
democracy.
Keywords: Civil society, network analysis, cooperation-competition, resource dependence,
structural holes, communication