DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSES IN INTERORGANIZATIONAL COORDINATION AGREEMENTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

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Abstract: Adoption of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in 2014 posed a major coordination challenge for diverse public agencies by requiring them to align their activities at the scale of groundwater basins, which is not how most governing bodies are organized. Meeting this requirement meant establishing governing and operating relationships between agencies. Such interorganizational relationships (IORs) are essential in many fields, but are also prone to conflict. Understanding the factors affecting the inclusion, specificity and salience of dispute resolution clauses (DRCs) in interorganizational agreements ensures the long-term functionality of IORs. We examined 74 multi-entity agreements forming new quasi-voluntary local agencies, devoted to developing and implementing groundwater sustainability plans to achieve groundwater sustainability under SGMA to identify potential factors influencing both the inclusion of DRCs in agreements, as well as the degree of specificity.

Type of resource	text
Date created	2021

Author	Tara Moran
Author	Janet Martinez
Author	William Blomquist
Contributing author	Water in the West, a program of the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West.

Subject	Alternative dispute resolution
Subject	Dispute resolution clauses
Subject	Interorganizational dispute resolution
Subject	Interorganizational coordination
Subject	Groundwater
Subject	SGMA
Subject	Water in the West
Subject	Woods Institute for the Environment and Bill Lane Center for the American West
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rg866ht6113

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Preferred Citation: Moran, T., J. Martinez, W. Blomquist. DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSES IN INTERORGANIZATIONAL COORDINATION AGREEMENTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Water in the West. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/rg866ht6113

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