Communication in Collaborative Interorganizational Relationships : An Empirical Study of Leadership and Stakeholder Participation in the Community Action Network

ISBN-13: 9783639147438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str.

Matt Koschmann

Opis

This book contributes to our understanding oforganizational communication in collaborativeinterorganizational relationships (IORs) in thenonprofit sector. Collaborative IORs demonstrate aform of leadership that is distributed among thepartners to mediate between common and competinginterests. This enables collaborative IORs to fostercollective action, despite the absenceof formal authority structures. This book alsodemonstrates the reciprocal processes of stakeholderparticipation needed to sustain collective action incollaborative IORs. Furthermore, the participation ofmultiple stakeholders in collaborative IORs givesrise to several communicative tensions that arebalanced through interactions among collaborationmembers as they continually negotiate the socialinfrastructure that constitutes collaborative IORs.Overall, this research helps us better understand thepractices of communication and human interaction thatfoster collaborative relationships among multiplestakeholders, especially within organizationalpartnerships in the nonprofit sector.

O autorze

Matt Koschmann is an assistant professor in the Department of
Communication at the University of Colorado. His research
focuses on the communication processes of stakeholder
relationships and interorganizational collaboration. He
and his wife Jen have a young son named Søren and they live near
Boulder, Colorado.