While existing literature on human services interorganizational network has focused on collaboration, networked service providers do compete for the same public and private funding sources. Interorganizational competition for scarce resources could be detrimental to collaboration. Yet organizational leaders’ external professional friendship ties with peers – an understudied type of informal relationship – may mitigate the effects of resource competition. Using data collected from a homeless service delivery network, we investigate such relational dynamics. Quantitative network analysis shows that professional friendship ties facilitate collaboration and moderate the negative impact of competition on collaboration. Both funders and managers need to invest in developing professional friendship networks.
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