In recent years, both managers and management scholars have regarded the networked firm as a promising organizational form. This book analyses when, why, and how firms engage in such forms of inter-organizational networking as strategic alliances, joint ventures, and long-term accords for collaboration among competitors as well as with suppliers and customers. The contributors outline how firm strategies, catalysts, and trust between actors shape the emergence and the types of inter-organizational collaboration.

Inter-organizational relations (IOR), the study of Strategic Alliances, Joint Ventures, Partnerships, Networks and other forms of relationship between organizations, is a field of study that has burgeoned over the last four decades, but is fragemented, drawing contributions from a wide variety of disciplines, theoretical bases, and sectoral interests. The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations provides a structured overview of the field. With contributions from leading international experts on their particular areas of expertise, it is an authoritative introduction to its research...

Welche Faktoren sind es, die in erster Linie den Erfolg eines Unternehmens steuern? Noch vor einigen Jahren hStten Betriebswirtschaftler und Praktiker diese Frage wahrscheinlich in weitgehender Obereinstimmung mit Hinweisen auf das Planungs und Kontrollsystem des Unternehmens beantwortet. Sicherlich hatte auch eine motivierende Fuhrung eine hohe Prioritat eingenommen. In jungster Zeit haben zunachst Unternehmensberater einen neuen entscheidenden Erfolgsfaktor "entdeckt" Die Organisationskultur. Ihre Basis ist ein Wertsystem, eine Unternehmensphilosophie, die m6glichst von allen Angeh6rigen...