Organizational risk perception in public agencies: the role of contracting and scientific and professional information
研究美国300家最大交通机构的调查数据，发现依赖科学专业信息会提升对极端天气风险的感知，而外包对风险感知的影响取决于外包策略。
Public agencies are increasingly required to respond to multiple and evolving threats. Perceptions of risk are important triggers of organizational responses and motivate adaptive strategies. Integrating administrative data with a survey of public managers employed across the 300 largest transit agencies in the US, we examine how outsourcing decisions and reliance on scientific and professional sources of information influence public agencies’ perceptions of extreme weather events’ risks. Results show that reliance on scientific and professional sources of information is positively associated with perceived risk of extreme weather events. The effect of contracting on risk perceptions depends on agencies’ outsourcing strategies.