Developmental papers
Accountability in the Context of Meta-Organizations (104)
Author/s: Sanne Bor
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Accountability, Inter-organizational relations, Meta-organizations, Pluralistic accountability
Abstract: Drawing on the concept of pluralistic accountability, this paper explores the different accountability relations present in the complex inter-organizational collaboration processes. The paper contributes broadly to inter-organizational relations literature, by drawing on accountability concepts from political science and showing their relevance for both theory and practice. The paper draws insights from a set of five case studies, all meta-organizations. The paper therefore specifically contributes to the developing theory of meta-organizations, which has yet to explore questions of accountability.
Social Enterprise, Public Management, and Institutional Complexity in Global Sporting Mega Event Projects Public Service Provision and Legacy (226)
Author/s: Alex G. Gillett Kevin D. Tennent
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: mega project, institutional complexity, hybridity, project management, longitudinal study
Abstract: In recent times there have been growing expectations for organizational collaboration including public-private joint ventures, and there has been emerging research on how individual organizations manage their hybridity and institutional logics. However, there are few existing studies to address how hybridity or logics are managed in collaborative project based situations involving actors from multiple sectors, in which combinations of institutional logics result in institutional complexity leading to ambiguities and problems as to with whom or what responsibilities lie. We have therefore identified gaps: specifically a need for deeper information regarding the governance of, and management within, complex project based collaborations involving SE hybrids and public sector bodies, particularly where the multiple collaborators are working to a common goal but with differing priorities. We use an historic case, the 1994 FIFA World Cup, as a vehicle for studying the planning, delivery and longer-term legacy of a mega project, and the ways in which hybridity and institutional complexity were managed as the project evolved.
Teach-Learn-Share: Creating High Performance in Teaching and Learning through an Inter-organisational Partnership Between the Faculties of Management and Health & Medicine (420)
Author/s: Sarah Grace Brearley Casey Mcquinn Cross
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Learning and teaching, network, excellence, knowledge catalysts, meso-level culture
Abstract: The Higher Education environment in the UK is changing as a result of political uncertainty and financial tensions. The sector is grappling with cultural changes wherein students see themselves as consumers and Universities have to respond to demands and expectations by continuously improving the student experience whilst not diluting academic quality (PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2018). New ways of working, involving interdisciplinary pedagogic collaborations, offer an innovative way to create and sustain the performance necessary to meet demands while maintaining academic quality.
This discussion paper explores an inter-organisational partnership and resulting network within a high-ranking UK University. First, we will present an overview of the current climate and rationale for the need for new ways of creating high performance through inter-organisational pedagogic collaborations. Second, we will describe the resulting collaboration (Teach-Learn-Share) and the mechanism by which is seeks to facilitate new ways of developing and sharing knowledge about excellence in learning, teaching and assessment across Faculties of Management and Health. Finally, we will consider how these new types of initiatives can be sustained and further developed in order to effectively engage and develop colleagues interested in teaching and learning at every level within a collaborative network.
Explaining Relational Rewards in New Forms of Inter(Organizational) Collaboration (522)
Author/s: Deniz Philipp Kruse Golo Rovekamp Christiana Weber
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: new forms of collaborative arrangements, relational view, organizational boundaries, interorganizational collaboration, relational rewards
Abstract: In the light of open organizations and new forms of organizing we are experiencing the emergence of novel types of collaborations as well as novel partners for organizations e.g. crowds and communities. Although the motivations and goals, the why organizations collaborate has not changed over time, the way, the how seems to have changed significantly. In this conceptual paper, we systematically analyze and conceptually disentangle novel forms of firms collaboration with non organizational types NOTs and thereby applying the relational view . Along four theoretical dimensions, we investigate how firms engaged in these innovative types of cooperative arrangements generate relational rewards, and discuss whether and how the RV corpus as well as its basic assumptions hold for this somewhat different context.
A Systematic Literature Review of The Role of Networks in Supply Chain Sustainability Performance (569)
Author/s: Jilin Qiu Leila Alinaghian Daniel Prior
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Network, Supply Chain Sustainability, Systematic Literature Review
Abstract: This developmental paper outlines some initial findings from dominant scholarly discourses in supply chain sustainability from a network perspective. It achieves this by selecting 58 articles included in the systematic review of the literature. It draws on the evidence from the reviewed articles and found that network properties (i.e. structural properties and relational properties) contribute to the supply chain sustainability. Propositions and a conceptual framework is then established on the basis of the preliminary analysis. It offers insight for potential research to further analyse the role of networks connecting supply chain actors in implementing sustainability.
Inter-Organisational Collaboration. A case study of the Oxford Biotechnology Industry (688)
Author/s: Oluwatosin Lagoke
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Biotechnology industry, stakeholders, social network analysis, social capital, cluster.
Abstract: The study adopts the theory of social capital and stakeholder theory to investigate the multiplicity of stakeholders in the biotechnology industry. Our focus for this study is the Oxford Biotech Cluster. The research is divided into two stages. First, to identify the stakeholders in the biotech industry and second, analyse the interaction and interrelationships that exists among them using Social Network Analysis. At this stage, 20 stakeholder groups have been identified and data will be collected using mixed methods. Semi structured questionnaires will be administered as a first step, this will then be followed up with in-depth semi structured interviews. The study is novel in that it seeks to extend stakeholder theory beyond the firm, i.e applying this at industry level while from practitioners view point, the study will develop a framework that can be adopted by both firms and industries to facilitate better interaction and interrelationships.
Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Multi-Actor Projects: the Interplay between Structure and Knowledge Creation (689)
Author/s: Svetlana Klessova Catherine Thomas Sebastian Engell
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: inter-organizational collaboration, structure, knowledge creation, multi-actor project, research and innovation
Abstract: Over the last decades, research and innovation have become more open, more collaborative, and more project-organized. Inter-organizational multi-actor research and innovation projects have a broad knowledge base and high knowledge combination potential. But do different project structures stimulate knowledge generation in different ways? Using a comparative multiple case study of collaborative projects funded by the EU Research and Innovation Framework Programmes, the paper provides empirical evidence on how project structures favor knowledge creation over the project lifetime. Contradicting the management literature, we found that deep knowledge creation in inter-organizational projects does not depend on the size of the knowledge base or on the knowledge combination potential per se: the modular structure, despite its limited size of the knowledge base and reduced variety of combinations, may be the most efficient structure for deep knowledge creation, while the interconnected modular and network project structures particularly favor lateral and broad knowledge creation.
Intrafirm and Interfirm Networks: Evolvement Dynamics in Divestitures (920)
Author/s: Oleksandra Kochura
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: N/A
Abstract: A corporate divestiture is a unique form of transactions because while pursuing a strategic change with the detachment of some activities from the corporate portfolio, it enables their simultaneous retention to ensure that the divestiture implementation process will lead to the desired outcomes. However, up to date, there exists no investigation of the evolvement of divested businesses embeddedness and associated with its formation of new inter organizational relationships. The objective of this conceptual paper is to explain value creation from divestiture process by relying on the embeddedness and business relatedness, but also to explore the phenomenon of formation of interfirm cooperative arrangement in the framework of businesses separation process. Taking into consideration that disappearance of the access to valuable resources may result in disturbance of the existing linkages and relationships, this paper is aimed at identifying the best scenarios for the divestiture process in the relation to the embeddedness of businesses to be divested.
Understanding Leadership in Inter Organisational Collaborations Emerging Insights from an Emergency Service Collaboration (998)
Author/s: Swetketu Patnaik Paresh Wankhade
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Inter-organisational collaboration, Police Forces, Leadership Theories, Integrative and Collaborative Leadership, Longitudinal Case Study
Abstract: Emergency services leadership has been characterised as top down, hierarchical, heroic with a command and control approach prevalent in the organisations. There has been reliance on historical and hierarchical models of heroic and top down leadership and absence of a distributive and pluralist approach to leadership. Current thinking and models are often based around individual services without much joined up approach. Greater collaboration entails a different approach to leadership development, which needs to be facilitated at multiple levels within the organisations. In this paper, we use insights from an ongoing collaboration between two police forces in England to identify critical challenges the collaboration faced as it evolved over a period of four years and the response of the senior leadership team to address the changes. We find that the most significant challenge the leaders faced from the members of the two organisations pertained to resistance to collaborate. The leaders adopted two approaches, involving organisational members in developing the business cases and organising culture and team bonding events, to mitigate resistance to address the challenges.
How Does Risk (Relational And Performance) Influence Alliance Termination: A Research Framework (1031)
Author/s: Sathees Kunjuthamby
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Strategic alliances, alliance termination, relational risk, performance risk, research framework, risk
Abstract: Strategic alliance formations have been used in many industries as a strategy to capitalize on a number of benefits. However, despite their popularity and widespread use, strategic alliance formations are commonly known as highly unstable and less successful leading to a higher rate of alliance termination. This observation suggests the need for an investigation on the underlying reasons for alliance termination. This paper seeks to understand and develop a research model for explaining how risk relational and performance influence alliance termination. Consequently, this question takes on different nuances, since alliance risks, dichotomized as relational and performance risk need to be identified in order to explain their contribution for the alliance termination. The researcher aims to address the question how does risk relational and performance influence alliance termination
Toward A Framework For A National System Of Innovation (NSI) For The Readymade Garments Sector Of Bangladesh (1110)
Author/s: Mamun Ul Ala Ashokkumar Manoharan
Track: Inter-Organisational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: uncertainty, innovation, collaboration, national system of innovationn, international competitiveness
Abstract: Bangladesh is the second largest exporter of the readymade garments (RMG) in the world. The growth of the industry was stimulated by quota free exports to developed countries including the USA and the EU and under a protective regime. The competitiveness of the industry largely hinges on cheap labour and most firms produce low value apparels using imported raw materials. As there was limited incentive for most RMG firms to pursue innovation, hitherto, the sector has remained a low-technology-intensive industry. In recent years the competitiveness of the Bangladeshi RMG sector has been impacted by a number of factors including the abolition of quota free export facilities and the rapid transformation of the global clothing industry from a labour-intensive and low-technology-sector to a capital-intensive and high-technology sector. The aim of this study is to assess the potential impact of these challenges on the sector and propose a national system of innovation (NSI) for the RMG sector in Bangladesh to promote firm- and institutional-level collaborative R&D and innovation activities, enhance the flow of international technology transfer and thereby improve international competitiveness.