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McDowell, William C. "Interorganizational Relationships: The Effects of Organizational Efficacy on Member Firm Performance." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5313/.
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Relationships between the collective actors within interorganizational relationships are a growing area of research in management. Interorganizational networks continue to be a popular mechanism used by organizations to achieve greater performance. Organizations develop competencies to work with other organizations, but the confidence of these organizations to use these strengths for a competitive advantage has yet to be empirically examined. The purpose of this study is to examine organizational efficacy, how competencies may related to that efficacy, and the relationship of efficacy with performance. The goal of this study is to observe the relationship among trust, dependence, information quality, continuous quality improvement, and supplier flexibility with organizational efficacy. In addition, the relationship between organizational efficacy and performance is also observed. There are two primary research questions driving this study. First, what is the relationship between trust, dependence, information quality, continuous quality improvement, supplier flexibility and organizational efficacy? Second, what is the relationship between organizational efficacy and performance? The theories supporting the hypotheses generated from these questions include theories such as social cognitive theory, quality improvement, and path-goal theory. Data collected from the suppliers of a large university support the hypotheses. Regression analysis and structure coefficients were used to analyze the data. Results indicate that both research question one and research question two are supported. In addition, the theoretical model as a whole, which indicates a mediating relationship, was examined and discussed. This study contributes to both academic and practice by examining efficacy in an interorganizational setting. In addition, as organizations better understand the relationship between competencies and confidence, they will better know how to collectively work to achieve greater results with more attention being placed on monitoring the relationship in order to experience more desired outcomes. Limitations of the current study and opportunities for future research are also discussed.
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Johnson, Lauren. "A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO INTERORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION VIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR TWITTER ACCOUNTS." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/83.
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Using an adaptation of O’Connor and Shumate’s (2018) theoretical propositions, this research examines interorganizational communication through the lens of multidimensional networks. Twitter data was crawled from a selection of emergency management organization accounts to measure affinity, representational, flow, and semantic networks. These data included the organizations’ followed accounts, retweets, replies, and mentions. A thematic analysis of the organizations’ mission statements was also conducted in order to inform the examination of the semantic networks. The results show a significant relationship between the number of accounts an organization follows and the likelihood of having its message shared. This research provides a further theoretical application of a network analysis method of studying interorganizational communication as well as a practical application for organizations seeking to increase their engagement on Twitter.
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Lundström, Anna. "Improving lives by interorganizational collaboration : A collaboration analysis on a social development project." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-14734.
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To organize and implement social development projects through interorganizational collaboration is common, but lack empirical studies from a psychological perspective. The study´s aim was to make a collaboration analysis on the implementing actors within a social development project, to understand how the collaboration was functioning. The study took place within a project for marginalized groups in Tanzania, arranged by a Swedish NGO and implemented by interorganizational collaboration. Eight participants were interviewed on six areas: Environment, Membership characteristics, Process and Structure, Communication, Purpose, and Resources. The findings highlight the complexity of interorganizational collaboration. The studied collaborative network is overall working in the same direction, but has both functional and dysfunctional areas where the dysfunctional need to be improved for the collaboration to work well. The study indicates that interorganizational collaboration brings benefits for social development projects, and the six areas studied seem to cover essential areas of interorganizational collaboration.
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Lo, Kwok-kuen. "The changing pattern of dependency of a residents' organization : from initiation to consolidation /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12325867.
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Brown, Stephan Edward. "Navigating the Edges: An Examination of the Relationship between Boundary Spanning, Social Learning, and Partnership Capacity in Water Resource Management." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/285.
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This study proposes a framework for measuring and explaining partnership formation and resilience. The motivation for this study is that we currently do not understand the precise mechanism by which partnerships form or how they stay together in the face of change. The framework draws on a design view of systems to argue that partnerships manage change through boundary spanning practices that operate on multiple levels of social reality. The literature suggests that there are many different types of boundary spanning practices. Some types foster social-technical innovations called "boundary objects" while others facilitate the progressive standardization of those practices through the comparison and selection of boundary objects by social actors who are themselves transformed by their adoption of these objects. The framework proposes a way to measure partnership capacity and social learning that corresponds to the orders of boundary spanning practices. It furthermore proposes three hypotheses, one concerned with partnership formation and two concerned with resilience. The first hypothesis states that partnerships form through a convergence of boundary spanning practices and a community of practice. Convergence depends on a host of factors, including the capacity of innovators and early adopters to leverage their early successes to build additional capital to further promote and eventually institutionalize their boundary spanning practices. The second hypothesis predicts that partnerships that demonstrate a pattern of alignment practices integrating operational and strategic concerns will tend to oscillate within a defined range of partnership functions or "states" (restricted resilience). The third hypothesis predicts that partnerships that inculcate a learning culture of institutional design practices will tend to persist under a theoretically limitless range of environmental demands (general resilience). To assess the framework, four case studies of water resource management partnerships in the Columbia River Basin were carried out. Data collection centered on interviews with boundary spanners, field trips, and secondary data. The results partially confirmed the first hypothesis, while evaluations of the resilience hypotheses were inconclusive. However, boundary spanning practices were catalogued according to the various types of partnership processes to demonstrate how the methodology can be used for cross-case comparisons and theory-building.
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Lo, Kwok-kuen, and 羅國權. "The changing pattern of dependency of a residents' organization: from initiation to consolidation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247659.
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Rieger, Fritz. "The influence of national culture on organizational structure, process and strategic decision making : a study of international airlines." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=120990.
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This research is a comparative field study of the influence of societal culture on organization structure and process. Past empirical studies were used to dérive a framework incorporating four fundamental dimensions of cultural values: power, authority distance, group orientation, and cognitive orientation- From thèse dimensions, five configurations were identified which accounted for most of the organizations reviewed in previous field studies: the Autocracy, the Political Entourage, the Traditional Bureaucracy, the Modem Bureaucracy and the Consensus configuration.[...]Cette recherche est une étude comparative de l’Influence de la culture sociale sur les structures et processus d’organisation. Un cadre Incluant quatre dimensions fondamentales des systèmes de valeurs culturels, soit le pouvoir, la distance d’autorité, l’orientation de groupe et l’orientation cognitive, fut dérivé d’études empiriques passées. Cinq configurations furent Identifiées à partir de ces dimensions et expliquèrent la plupart des organisations étudiées dans des ouvrages antérieurs: l’Autocratie. l’Entourage Politique, la Bureaucratie Traditionnelle, la Bureaucratie Moderne et la configuration du Consensus.[...]
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Kuilan, Rachel, and Keren Acevedo. "Self-Governed Interorganizational Networks for Social Change: A Case Study of the Criminalization of Online Sexual Grooming in Malaysia." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22855.
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Cross-sector collaborations in the form of self-organized interorganizational networks are key mechanisms to address complex social sustainability problems in a systematic manner with accelerated and effective results. Self-organized interorganizational networks allow for collaborations through low degrees of hierarchy and bureaucracy while achieving high levels of ownership and commitment among member organizations. These type of networks have proven useful to achieve policy reforms to tackle societal problems related to rapid evolving and internet related crimes affecting children. This study analyses the initial conditions and emergence of self-organized interorganizational networks, as well as the structuralarrangements and governance structures that facilitate the network organization. To do so, the authors used as case study the criminalization of online sexual grooming in Malaysia that resulted in the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017. The analysis of the case was conducted through a qualitative thematic analysis based on semi-structured interviews to 11 leaders of some of the organizations that collaborated by producing public awareness, educating about the implications of this type of crime, and simultaneously, drafting and passing the new law. The results of the study showed that the network in Malaysia was formed and organized organically through a combination of informal and formal methods and structures guided by a high sense of shared purpose and shared leadership.
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Oquendo, Mirtha Iris. "The effects of trust in Brazilian PNPs: interpersonal and interorganizational trust in the cultural sector social organizations in São Paulo, Brazil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/9951.
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This study seeks to evaluate how enterorganizational and interpersonal trust affects the degree of State interference in the operations of public-nonprofit partnerships (PNPs). We conducted a qualitative case study in two Brazilian PNPs, Projeto Guri and Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, through documental analysis and semi-structured interviews. Content analysis of the data yielded a trust framework that begins to explain how a variety of factors, including the protective qualities of the management contract and the strength of the board, moderate the relationship between interpersonal and interorganizational trust in PNPs. The study reveals that unlike Zaheer et al (1998), interpersonal trust had a unique and prominent effect on State interference and types of collaboration in PNPs. Parting from the suggestions by previous authors to contextualize PNP literature findings, the framework takes into account the highly personalistic qualities of Brazilian culture as well as historical and institutional context while highlighting the crucial role of interpersonal trust in Brazilian PNPs.
Este estudo busca avaliar como a confiança interpessoal e a confiança interorganizacional afeta o grau de interferência estatal na operação das parcerias estabelecidas entre o Estado com o terceiro setor. Conduzimos um estudo de caso qualitativo em duas organizações sociais brasileiras (OS), Projeto Guri e Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, por meio de análise de documentos e entrevistas. A análise dos dados coletados gerou um modelo que explica como uma série de fatores, incluindo as qualidades do contrato de gestão e o poder dos conselhos das organizações sociais, moderam a relação entre confiança interpessoal e interorganizacional nas parcerias. O estudo revela que ao contrário de Zaheer et al (1998), a confiança interpessoal influenciou expressivamente o nível de interferência do Estado e o padrão de colaboração observado nas parcerias do Estado com o terceiro setor. Outros autores sugerem que as teorias sobre parcerias com o terceiro setor sejam contextualizadas. Desta forma, o modelo considera o contexto histórico e institucional do Brasil. Além disso enfatiza a importância do personalismo na cultura brasileira ao mesmo tempo em que destaca a proeminência da confiança interpessoal.
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Khurshid, Imran, and Maciej Twardowski. "Interorganizational Networks as Emerging Learning Organizations." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22346.
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As the topic of sustainability is gaining a lot of importance, organizations in the aviation industry are coming together to form networks. The purpose of the study is to understand the concept of inter-organizational networks as potential learning organizations and find out how facilitating processes that enable these inter-organizational networks like collaboration, communication and knowledge management operate within networks. Further research will explore processes of learning in networks to investigate alignment and resemblance with the concept of sustainable learning organization and provide an insight on organization structure and culture as enablers of learning. The basic design of the study consists of semi-structured interviews of two networks in the aviation industry as primary data in order to support research questions with empirical analysis. In addition, systematic review of academic literature and official websites of various network stakeholders was used as a secondary data collection source to discover track record of current research study in this field and identify knowledge gaps and areas for further study. Major findings include impact of formal and informal structure of networks on learning processes and objective setting for the network. It also depicts a need for a holistic and systematic approach at interorganizational level in order to form a learning organization. In the end culture was also identified as a learning enabler in networks that tend to be sustainable learning organizations.
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Klaver, Sofie, and Donna-Maria Maalouf. "Interorganizational learning through collaboration in the non-profit sector." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43173.
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In 2015, Swedish Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) served as the backbone of society, assisting 162.877 immigrant refugees escaping conflict zones throughout the world. As the thrive to include newcomer refugees in the Swedish society continues, non-profits are facing numerous of challenges such as operating in highly competitive environments marked by shrinking grant budgets and increased pressure to provide long-term impact. To achieve optimal NPO organizational sustainability, the non-profit sector must therefore interact and learn how to address the aforementioned difficulties collectively. Furthermore, existing studies emphasizes the scarcity of research on learning through non-profit collaboration, as the knowledge management and organizational learning field has mostly concentrated on the for-profit sector rather than the non-profit sector. To fill this research gap, this study uses a qualitative approach to investigate NPO perceptions of interorganizational learning through collaboration, conducting ten semi-structured interviews with NPO employees working with newcomer refugees in Sweden. The results indicated that the NPOs’ learning outcomes connected to the need for collective sensemaking of the Swedish government’s new migration policies, which had a significant influence on the target groups prospects of remaining in Sweden. Moreover, the NPOs learned from unsuccessful collaborations, resulting in changes to the organizations’ routines and processes aimed at improving future collaborations. As a consequence, learning outcomes were incorporated into their organizational memory through digital Knowledge Management Systems such as Google Drive and Rise-Up. They were, however, heavily reliant on people’s willingness to share tacit and explicit knowledge, as well as an organizational culture that encouraged them to knowledge share. As a result, most non-profits either did not upgrade these systems at all or did not have the technological infrastructure to do so in the first place.
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Tekeste, Selamawit Fisseha, and Kevin Hoferer. "Bridging Corporate Culture and Organizational Networking : An introduction of Interorganizational Culturing from an Actor-Network Perspective." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-91125.
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Organizational Networking is an eminently modern concept and has been more and more investigated by scholars in recent years. However, little research has focused on the impact of Organizational Culture on Organizational Networking. The reason of this is that there is a duality in the field of culture between culture within organizations and culture within organizational networks. We argue that none of those stances alone can provide a comprehensive view of cultural phenomena within networking organizations and that a new perspective should be taken. In order to investigate the subject, we bring in the concept of Interorganizational Culturing and investigate it from an Actor-Network Theory perspective, which leads us to the following research question: which are the actors of Interorganizational Culturing in a networking organization? To gain insight on the topic, we have searched for theories on cultures within both the scope of organizations and organizational networks to build upon. In order to illustrate our research, we have conducted unstructured interviews in accordance to Actor-Network Theory principles. Our investigation was led through the use of convenience sampling method and was performed with six large Swedish organizations which activities differ and size varies. Our findings suggest that there are both structural and cultural actors to Interorganizational Culturing, the latter being the ones that can be influenced by the organization. The Actor-Network Theory perspective enabled us to show that many of the dynamics are sparked by nonhuman entities such as components or Organizational Culture (values, beliefs, behaviours). Therefore managers should reflect upon the fact that the potential of improving interorganizational collaboration in their organization lies in their very hands and that they should ask themselves the following question: how ready are we to collaborate more in order to compete better?
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Collier, Peter. "Blockmodeling network data from six small towns : an assessment of organizational typologies." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3892.
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A major question in the study of complex organizations is whether it is possible to develop a useful taxonomy which identifies the crucial aspects of organizations and classifies them in a significant manner. One group of typologies of complex organizations focuses on the relationship between the organization and its environment. The purpose of this thesis is to test the validity of three existing typologies of complex organizations, each of which focuses on one aspect of the relationship between organizations and their environment. The major innovation in this research is the use of block modeling, a form of network methodology, to analyze the multiplex relationships and to establish categories of organizations in six towns in Minnesota. This categorical scheme is based on groupings of organizations that share 2 similar patterns of relationships in a community network. The first part of this thesis is an attempt to discover if the three typologies being tested, which were originally developed from data on internal organizational characteristics, are relevant categorical "tools" for distinguishing among "classes" of organizations that were grouped based on the relational data from network analysis of the six Minnesota towns. Three hypotheses are presented, each associated with a different typology to be tested: Hypothesis I - based on inputs (Resource Dependence), Hypothesis II - based on throughputs (Katz and Kahn), and Hypothesis III - based on outputs (Parsonian). Each of these hypotheses predict specific inter-organizational relationships that should be present in the empirical data. A typology is considered relevant for use in this study, if the inter-organizational relationship, predicted by the corresponding hypothesis, is found to be present in the empirical data. All three typologies examined are found to be relevant categorical tools for the network data employed in this study.
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Oliveira, Erick Dawson de. "CONSÓRCIO INTERMUNICIPAL DE SAÚDE/AMUNPAR: UMA HISTÓRIA REVISITADA." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2011. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/14.
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Previous issue date: 2011-09-13The thematic about organization networks has taken up an important place in the field of social science applied to administration according to researchers interest to understand the phenomenon the cooptation in the markets and its relation among the actors in the economy. As such, the proposal of this research was to understand from network theory which had been the profits or conquests that the analysis object got. In this perspective, it searched to revisit in this research the social memory of CIS/AMUNPAR that is characterized as an intergovernmental cooperation network and it s being supported by Unified Health System (UHS) as integrant part of health public policies in the period of democratization and municipalization of Brazilian health sector. Intermunicipal Health Consortiums assumed the responsibility of attendance of services in the State left to be only a simple coadjuvant and start to be a main social actor in the rendering of health service inequalities in the country. From politics redemocratization process of the country, the consortiums were created with the objective to approach municipalities with the users of system SUS. Therefore, this study has qualitative, exploratory and descriptive approaches using history the document analysis. The procedures of analysis of data were based on the analytical generality and bibliography study. The data allowed understanding that CIS/AMUNPAR goes through fragmentation in the partnership established before in the network and that needs to join efforts to plan its action in set, as well as characterize an effective cooperative network. The research still disclosed that separately municipalities wouldn t get to offer all required and necessary assistance for the Union from decentralization health process and better strategy adjusted to Northwestern region of Paraná State would be in way of consortium of the 28 municipalities that understood this region.
A temática sobre redes organizacionais tem ocupado um lugar importante no campo de estudos da ciência social aplicada à administração dado o grau de interesse dos pesquisadores compreenderem o fenômeno da coopetição nos mercados e sua relação entre os atores na economia. A análise proposta neste estudo apresenta o sistema de consorciamento de municípios tendo como ponto central da rede o CIS/AMUNPAR em torno das políticas públicas de saúde. A proposta foi de entender quais foram os ganhos/conquistas que o consórcio obteve a partir dos conceitos da teoria de redes. Dado esse contexto, buscou-se revisitar nesta pesquisa a memória social do CIS/AMUNPAR caracterizado como uma rede de cooperação intergovernamental, sendo apoiada pelo SUS como parte integrante das políticas públicas de saúde no período de democratização e municipalização do setor de saúde no Brasil. Os Consórcios Intermunicipais de Saúde assumiram a responsabilidade de atendimento das especialidades no Estado, deixando de serem apenas um mero coadjuvante e passando a ser um ator social principal na prestação de serviços de saúde no país. A partir do processo de redemocratização política do país, os consórcios foram criados objetivando a aproximação dos municípios com os usuários do sistema SUS. Trata-se portanto, de uma pesquisa metodologicamente calcada na abordagem qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva, valendo-se da história oral e análise documental. Os procedimentos de análise dos dados foram baseados no modelo analítico geral e bibliografia fundamentada. Os dados permitiram compreender que o CIS/AMUNPAR passa por uma fragmentação na parceria estabelecida na rede em sua gênese e que precisa unir esforços para planejar suas ações em conjunto, assim como se caracteriza uma rede cooperativa efetiva. A pesquisa ainda revelou que isoladamente os municípios não conseguiriam oferecer toda a assistência necessária e requerida pela União a partir do processo de descentralização da saúde e que a estratégia mais adequada para a região do noroeste do Paraná seria na forma de consorciamento dos 28 municípios que compreendiam esta região.
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Paulsen, Neil. "Group identification, communication and employee outcomes during organizational change /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16732.pdf.
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Muleya, Cedrick. "Interorganizational relationship management: managing across hierachies, markets and networks." University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1931_1189593862.
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This study focused on understanding inter-organizational relationships (IOR) of a dynamic nature. A dynamic process that has repetitive sequences of negotiation, commitment, and execution stages is central to inter-organizational relationships. The dynamic process is a tool that is used by management through collaboration, co-operation, and coordination to engender formation, governance, and performance of inter-organizational relationships. This report looked into how the resource-dependency theory gives insight into the formation of an inter-organizational relationships and how the transaction-cost theory contributes to the understanding ofinter-organizational relationships governance.
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Nortey, Vicentia. "Inter-organizational collaboration between university-linked innovation organizations - A case study of Drivhuset and STORM." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22651.
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The role of continuous innovation is imperative to creating and maintaining sustainablecommunities. The role of collaboration is also imperative to creating and maintainingsustainable communities. Researchers mean that the educational system should be an activeplayer in supporting government policies to promote local entrepreneurship and find it crucialto create collaborations among and within universities to achieve this. But what if the practiceof the solution is the complex phenomenon? The word “collaboration” is a multifaceted termthat has created a lot of ambiguities amongst organizations. This study therefore aimed tounravel the characteristics of inter-organizational collaboration between university-linkedinnovation organizations by studying the collaboration between two innovation organizationslinked to Malmö University. The outcome was depicted in a model as a suggestion to aframework of the collaborative efforts between university-linked innovation organizations.Whereas there are a number of pre-identified elements for successful collaboration, it wasfound that five distinct elements played a bigger role than others. These are committedmembers, access to resources, relationships & mutuality, diverse skillset and time& patience.These, alongside with a conflict-resolution strategy and a defined process map out thecornerstones of the suggested model.
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Dumdum, Leodones Yballe. "The interhuman side of interorganizational partnership among internationally active non-profit organizations." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1059156668.
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Lee, Ra Won. "Interorganizational Relationships and Mergers of Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Two Case Studies of Mergers of Nonprofit Arts Organizations." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1451948476.
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Keysar, Elizabeth J. "Implementing sustainability in large public organizations: impacts of bureaucracy." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47664.
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Environmental Planning theory tells us that continued improvement in environmental outcomes will require new approaches that are voluntary; behavior change will come from within organizations, not imposed from outside. The concept of sustainability fits in this new phase of environmental planning and policy. In order for organizations to be successful in achieving sustainability goals, they must create an organizational context that produces innovative ideas (considered a strength of organic or learning organizations), along with an organizational context that effectively manages and implements continuous change (considered a strength of bureaucratic organizations). Effectively striking this balance appears to be a key component of making progress in sustainability for large public organizations. The research completed through this doctoral dissertation addresses gaps in the literature by asking the question: How have large public organizations implemented sustainability programs?
A multiple case study design was used that examined three large public organizations that have adopted sustainability goals and established programs for achieving these goals. The data were analyzed based on a conceptual framework that predicts the types of activities and attributes organizations will exhibit to successfully achieve sustainability goals. The results demonstrate that sustainability implementation in these organizations is dependent upon leadership support, cross-functional teams, orientation to the external environment, effective management systems and consistent support over time. Bureaucratic organizations are structured to effectively accomplish the core mission, but if they also want to be more sustainable, they must adopt and promote more organic attributes to enable change, learning and innovation.
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Yamamoto, Yasumasa. "Interorganizational coordination in crises : a study of disaster in Japan /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260135356169.
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Holloway, Samuel Scott 1974. "When does the network organizational form fail? Examining the impact of project characteristics on organizational structure and performance." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10222.
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xv, 228 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This dissertation integrates economic and sociological approaches to network organizing to explain the structure and performance of network organizational forms. Previous theorizing from economics and sociology linked network organizational structure to "pairwise" or dyadic assessments of transaction efficiency and relational efficacy. Research based on these theories offered only partial understanding of network organizational performance because this work ignores the impact of multiple dyads interacting simultaneously, which occurs at the network level of analysis. This study integrates economic and sociological theories, treating them as interdependent explanations of network structure and performance. Theory is developed at the network level of analysis, which is necessary to explain the structure and performance of network organizations. Taking a network governance perspective, I formulate a theoretical model predicting the impact of exchange conditions upon the structure and performance of network organizations. I focus upon a specific variant of network organizations, "temporary interorganizational networks" (TINs), and develop and test hypotheses derived from transaction cost economics and from the sociological perspective focusing on relational embeddedness. I test these hypotheses by constructing a unique dataset containing comprehensive financial, organizational, and performance information regarding a population of network organizations during the years 2000-2007. Each observation in this dataset constitutes a network form designed to address a specific project, and these observations include both those networks that succeeded and those that failed. The study's design overcomes a limitation of prior cross-sectional analyses: Most prior analyses treat network ties as durable and assume that all ties add value to an organization. This assumption is challenged by empirical findings suggesting that the value of a relational tie decays rapidly with time. In contrast, the transient relationships common in TINS repeatedly form and dissolve over time. By observing both the formation and dissolution of ties and both successful and unsuccessful interorganizational networks, this study is among the first to test the full range of network organizational performance. My results indicate that exchange conditions significantly affect both the structure and performance of the network organizational form. Additionally, analyses reliably predict failure of the network form, which amends and extends prior theory.
Committee in charge: Alan Meyer, Chairperson, Management; Michael Russo, Member, Management; Anne Parmigiani, Member, Management; William Starbuck, Member, Management; Renee Irvin, Outside Member, Planning Public Policy & Mgmt
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Broschak, Joseph Paul. "Do the actors make the play? : personnel mobility and the dissolution of interorganizational relationships /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Sahin, Bahadir. "Factors Influencing Effectiveness of Interorganizational Networks Among Crisis Management Organizations: A Comparative Perspective." Doctoral diss., Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002709.
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Krasner, Tate Q. "Identity Crisis: Interorganizational Cooperation and Competition within the Peacekeeping Regime Complex." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106773.
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Thesis advisor: Jennifer EricksonWhat explains why international and regional organizations in some cases choose to cooperate during peacekeeping operations, while in other cases find themselves competing for resources and control? This thesis seeks to explain variation in coordination, competition, and cooperation between international and regional organizations in the area of peacekeeping. In the post-Cold War era, a number of factors—including the proliferation of increasingly capable organizational actors, expansion of mandated tasks, and increasing complexity of conflict—have led to the development of an international peacekeeping “regime complex.” This complex is characterized by multiple international institutions that exhibit overlapping membership, are actively involved in matters of peace and security, and are connected by normative and operative interaction, both official and ad hoc. In some cases, this complex functions smoothly, while in others, it does not. By examining materialist, dependency, and identity factors at work in the peacekeeping regime complex, this thesis explores institutional interaction and the drivers of both rivalry and collaboration in the context of four cases: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Mali, and Somalia. I hypothesize that organizations will cooperate when they hold complementary understandings of their roles within the peacekeeping regime complex, but will compete when these identities clash and overlap. Understanding these dynamics will not only lead to recommendations for more effective and efficient peacekeeping operations, but also contribute more generally to the growing theoretical field of regime complexity in international relations
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Scholar of the College
Discipline: International Studies
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Kapmeier, Florian. "Dynamics of interorganizational learning in learning alliances /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/525116672.pdf.
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Holloway, Samuel Scott. "When does the network organizational form fail? : examining the impact of project characteristics on organizational structure and performance /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10222.
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Greer, Patricia A. "Elements of Effective Interorganizational Collaboration: A Mixed Methods Study." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1502545581350892.
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Brooks, Jacqueline D. "Congregations and Social Services: An Analysis of Inter-Organizational Networks." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1205871447.
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Yang, Jing Yu. "Failure-induced interorganizational learning : entry and survival analysis of Japanese firms in China, 1980-2000 /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?MGTO%202006%20YANG.
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Johnson-Dalzine, Patricia. "An analysis of the interorganizational relationships among three types of organizations participating in a protective service system /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266011221457.
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Elliot, Amy Elizabeth. "An analysis of participation, quality of care and efficiency outcomes of an inter-organizational network of nursing homes." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180536289.
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Neeley, Concha Kaye Ramsey. "Connective Technology Adoption in the Supply Chain: The Role of Organizational, Interorganizational and Technology-Related Factors." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5217/.
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Supply chain management (SCM) is an area that offers organizations significant opportunities for both cost reductions and revenue enhancement. In their article, "Supply Chain Management: Implementation Issues and Research Opportunities," Lambert, Cooper and Pagh defined SCM as the "integration of key business processes from end user through original suppliers that provides products, services, and information that add value for customers and other stakeholders." Adopting and implementing appropriate technology has emerged as a source of competitive advantage for supply chain member firms through the integration of business processes with suppliers and customers. It is important to understand the factors influencing an organization's decision to acquire such technology. In the context of this study, connective technologies are defined as wireless communication devices and their accompanying infrastructure and software which may enhance coordination among supply chain partners. Building on previous literature in the areas of supply chain management, marketing strategy, and organizational innovation, a model was developed to test the relationships between organizational, interorganizational, and technology-related factors and the adoption of advanced connective technology, using radio frequency identification (RFID) as the test case, in the supply chain. A Web-based survey of supply chain professionals was conducted resulting in 224 usable responses. The overall model was statistically significant with four of the predictors significantly influencing the adoption of RFID in the supply chain. Size, centralization, new product advantage and time to achieve targeted ROI were significantly related to adoption of connective technology (RFID). Interorganizational related factors were not significant predictors of connective technology adoption. The study contributes to theory by testing scales from marketing and management in a supply chain context in order to better understand behavioral dimensions of supply chain management and logistics. The conceptualization and measurement of market orientation at the interfirm level advances the market orientation literature. Finally, the study contributes to the technology adoption literature by considering organizational-related, interorganizational-related, and technology-related factors that influence adoption of connective technology in the supply chain.
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Thang, Van Nguyen. "Interfirm trust dynamics in Vietnam /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055701.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-152). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Colwell, Kenneth David. "The structure of alliance networks in nascent organizational fields : the case of nanotechnology /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095240.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-153). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Larentis, Fabiano. "Marketing de relacionamento e cultura organizacional : uma perspectiva interorganizacional." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/22744.
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Relacionamentos interorganizacionais são complexos e multifacetados, por sua natureza não apenas econômica, mas social e cultural. Por sua vez, estratégias de Marketing de Relacionamento não apenas possibilitam vantagens competitivas sustentáveis, mas podem interferir nos sistemas de símbolos e significados de organizações diferentes, através da frequência e qualidade das interações e pela existência de confiança, comprometimento, cooperação e aprendizados comuns. Considerando os fundamentos e práticas do Marketing de Relacionamento, o Marketing como área de fronteira dentro das organizações e as características e processos atinentes à Cultura Organizacional, este estudo teve como propósito analisar a contribuição dos relacionamentos interorganizacionais, especificamente entre fornecedores e clientes, nas suas transformações culturais organizacionais. Assim, tendo uma revisão literária na qual se abordaram a Cultura Organizacional, o Marketing de Relacionamento e as fronteiras organizacionais, foi efetuado um estudo qualitativo de casos múltiplos. Participaram da pesquisa funcionários e intermediários de canais de marketing de uma empresa moveleira (intitulada Empresa M) e de uma empresa de prestação de serviços financeiros (intitulada Empresa S). Foram realizadas quarenta e seis entrevistas em profundidade e uma observação, em quatro fases de pesquisa: a primeira e a terceira fases na Empresa M (vinte e seis entrevistas e uma observação), e a segunda e quarta na Empresa S (vinte entrevistas). A análise de dados utilizada foi a baseada na grounded theory. Os resultados indicam a importância da confiança, do comprometimento, da cooperação e dos processos de aprendizagem nas transformações das culturas organizacionais envolvidas; a importância destas dimensões na continuidade dos relacionamentos e na redução dos conflitos de papel dos interfaceadores; o papel da rotatividade e dos símbolos e significados não compartilhados em enfraquecer essas dimensões e respectivas relações. Por fim, evidenciam a existência de uma cultura interorganizacional, um sistema de símbolos e significados partilhados, por grupos ou indivíduos de organizações diferentes, de forma transitória ou específica a determinadas questões (perspectiva cultural da fragmentação).Interorganizational relationships are complex and multifaceted, by its nature not only economic but social and cultural. In turn, Relationship Marketing strategies not only allow sustainable competitive advantages, but can influence the systems of symbols and meanings of different organizations, through the frequency and quality of interactions and the existence of trust, commitment, cooperation and learning processes. Considering the fundamental practices of Relationship Marketing, the boundary characteristics of Marketing in organizations and the characteristics and processes related to organizational culture, this study aimed to analyze the contribution of interorganizational relationships, specifically suppliers and customers, to the changes in organizational cultures. Therefore, considering a literature review in which was addressed Organizational Culture, Relationship Marketing and organizational boundaries, it was made a qualitative multiple-case study. The participants were employees and marketing channels intermediaries of a furniture company (called Company M) and a financial services company (called Company S). Forty-six in-depth interviews and one observation were made, at four phases of research, the first and third phases in Company M, with twenty-six interviews and the observation, and the second and fourth in the Company S, with twenty interviews. The data analysis used was based on grounded theory. The results indicate the importance of trust, commitment, cooperation and learning processes in the changes of organizational cultures considered, the importance of these dimensions in the relationships continuity and boundary spanners’ role conflicts reduction and the role of turnover unshared symbols and meanings in weakening these dimensions and their relations. Finally, demonstrate the existence of interorganizational culture, a system of symbols and meanings shared by groups or individuals from different organizations, on a temporary way or specific to certain issues (culture perspective of fragmentation).
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El-Haddad, Pierre. "Developing Cooperation among NGOs : exploratory research in Lebanon." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSE3029.
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Cette recherche explore la coopération entre les organisations non-gouvernementales opérant au Liban. Dans un contexte de besoins sociétaux croissants et diminution de ressources disponibles, les ONGs sont appelées à coopérer ensemble pour améliorer leur impact et l’efficacité d’utilisation de leurs ressources. La méthodologie adoptée est celle d’une recherche intervention socio-économique pour étudier la coopération et sa relation avec l'amélioration des performances. Les résultats suggèrent que les dysfonctionnements intra-organisationnels sont des antécédents des dysfonctionnements de coopération et qu'une coopération réussie améliore les performances organisationnellesThis research investigates cooperation among non-governmental organizations operating in Lebanon. Against a background of mounting societal requirements and diminishing resources, NGOs are called upon to cooperate together to improve their resource efficiency and their impact. The methodology adopted is the socio-economic intervention research to study cooperation and it relation to improved performance. Findings suggest that intra-organizational dysfunctions are antecedents of cooperation dysfunctions, and that a successful cooperation improves organizational performance
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Daley, Marcia. "Exploring the Relationship between Supply Network Configuration, Interorganizational Information Sharing and Performance." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/managerialsci_diss/16.
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ABSTRACT EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUPPLY NETWORK CONFIGURATION, INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SHARING AND PERFORMANCE By MARCIA DALEY August 2008 Committee Chair: Dr. Subhashish Samaddar Major Department: Decision Science Critical to the success of a firm is the ability of managers to coordinate the complex network of business relationships that can exist between business partners in the supply network. However many managers are unsure on how best to leverage their resources to capitalize on the information sharing opportunities that are available in such networks. Although there is significant research on information sharing, the area of inter-organizational information sharing (IIS) is still evolving and there is limited research on IIS in relation to systemic factors within supply networks. To help fill this gap in the literature, a primary focus of this dissertation is on the relationship between the design of the supply network and IIS. The design of the supply network is characterized by the supply network configuration which is comprised of (1) the network pattern, (2) the number of stages in the supply network, and (3) where the firm is located in that supply network. Four different types of IIS are investigated, herein. These types of IIS are a function of the frequency with which information is shared and the scope of information shared. Type 1 (Type 2) IIS is the low (high) frequency state where only operational information is shared. Similarly, Type 3 (Type 4) is the low (high) frequency state where strategic information is shared. The argument is that the type of IIS varies depending on the configuration of the supply network and that this relationship is influenced by the coordination structure established between firms in the network. The second focus of this dissertation deals with the relationship between IIS and performance. Research findings on the benefits to be gained from IIS have been ambiguous, with some researchers claiming reduced cost in the supply network with IIS, and others finding minimal or no benefits. To add clarity to these findings, the role that uncertainty plays in the relationship between IIS and performance is examined. The thesis presented is that the positive relationship between IIS types and the performance of the supply network is impacted by process uncertainty (i.e. the variability in process outcomes and production times), and partner uncertainty. Social network theory and transaction cost economics provide the theoretical lens for this dissertation. A model is developed and will be empirically validated in a cross-sectional setting, utilizing a sampling frame randomly selected and comprised of supply management executives from various industries within the United States.
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Woods, Nathan Michael. "Taking Off in Africa: Critical Elements of Aircraft Engine Manufacturer Engagement That Can Affect Airline Safety Performance." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1578644754400526.
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Dilanian, maral. "Nongovernmental Organizations, Formal Networks and Barrier Mitigation in Humanitarian Relief: A Case Study of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32759.
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The overarching focus of this research is to examine the role and effectiveness of formal network organizations in mitigating barriers to disaster relief. I address this larger focus by examining the impacts of one formal network organization, the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) on its twelve NGO members. Specifically, the study addressees the following questions: 1) How does PQMD function? 2) What effects has PQMD had on its NGO membersâ relationships with each other, especially in the context of disaster response efforts? The research design for this study uses a qualitative framework. The study includes a literature review, content analysis of PQMDâ s website, research from a previous study with the same organization, and new interviews with representatives from nine NGO members, as well as the executive director of PQMD. My findings indicate that PQMD has been able to successfully bring together 27 different organizations (private and nonprofit), and mitigate the barrier of lack of central authority and lack of trust, to discuss their concerns, learn from one another, learn about one other, and create relationships that lead to better communication and collaboration in humanitarian relief. Although PQMD is working on a much smaller scale, I argue that researchers can look at this formal network organization to better understand how to improve the coordination of humanitarian aid on a worldwide scale and can glean lessons from this group.Master of Public and International Affairs
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Silva, Gabriela Spechoto da. "Influências interorganizacionais em padrões institucionais: um estudo no setor de saúde." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/96/96132/tde-09122010-135409/.
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O processo de globalização e o acirramento do mercado competitivo tem conduzido as organizações a buscarem novas alternativas em suas estruturas e em suas relações com outras organizações e com o meio em que estão inseridas. Uma saída para adquirir maior competitividade está na intensificação e formalização destes relacionamentos, o que dá origem a estruturas organizacionais cada vez mais complexas, com instituições que apresentam relacionamentos interorganizacionais em grande escala. Estes tipos de arranjos são bastante comuns na área de saúde, já que tais organizações necessitam se relacionar intensamente com outras para a obtenção de resultados desejados. Diante desse contexto, o presente trabalho objetivou estudar uma instituição de saúde a fim de analisar qual a participação das diversas organizações presentes dentro de seu ambiente e como elas influenciam seus padrões institucionais. Para tanto foi utilizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, com o método de estudo de caso, sendo escolhido para tal o Centro de Saúde Escola da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto. Os dados foram coletados por meio de análise documental, observação e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com. A análise comparativa dos dados foi baseada no referencial teórico, abrangendo conceitos de estrutura organizacional, teoria institucional e administração por projetos. Concluiu-se que o Centro de Saúde Escola forma um campo de organizações com objetivos distintos em princípio, porém que se convergem na procuram de legitimidade. Além disso, neste campo também se institucionalizam os projetos implementados na unidade, os quais são à base da prestação de serviços e que intensificam os relacionamentos interorganizacionais neste ambiente.The process of globalization and the worsening of the competitive market have led organizations to seek new alternatives in their structures and their relations with other organizations and with the environment in which they are inserted. An alternative to get more competitive is the intensification and formalization of these relationships, which gives rise to organizational structures more complexs, with institutions that have intense interorganizational relationships. These types of organizational arrangements are fairly common in the health area, because those organizations need to relate closely with others to obtain the desired results. In this context, this paper aims to study a health organization with the objective to analyze the participation of various organizations present within its environment and how they influence their institutional standards. For this, had used a qualitative research, with the method of case study, being chosen for such a School Health Center of Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto. Data were collected through documentary analysis, observation and semi-structured interviews. Comparative analysis of the data was based on the theory, including concepts of organizational structure, institutional theory and administration projects. It was concluded that the School Health Center as a field of organizations with different goals in principle, but they converge in search of legitimacy. Moreover, in this field the projects implemented also institutionalize, which are based on services and increase the interorganizational relationships in this environment.
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Vizzoto, Andrieli Diniz. "Redes interorganizacionais e as organizações individuais: transposição da cultura coletiva para a perspectiva organizacional." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4689.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorInterorganizational networks emerge as a chance of survival and adaptation to the competitive business market. These are the union of several organizations with common goals, which form a more complex organization, with elements such as structure, organizational culture and values. Changing is a need to adapt to the environment, occurring as in the case of an organization that stops acting alone and becomes part of a network structure. Modifications may occur not only outside the organization, but also within it, so it is necessary to research the social context in which these networks and organizations are embedded, in order to formulate propositions about the possible constructions of meaning that these changes may cause. Thus, this study seeks to understand how cultural changes are constructed in the are partner organizations which participate in a structure of interorganizational networks. To understand the real and vivid perspective of the object of study, it is necessary to go in its reality through the study method of multicase, with three networks participantsm using observation and interviews with managers of interorganizational networks and organizations of these networks, with eight interviwees. So, it focus to understand whether individuals perceive that there is change in the culture and values of the organization that is acting in a network, which cultural movements pass from one to another. The results were analyzed using the software NVivo 10. By knowing a little of the history of each network as well as the current reality of each one, it was verified that the founders are largely responsible for passing values they practiced in their organizations as managers to the network, they guide the network in its more propitious moment. In addition, network management is a very broad opportunity to create opportunities to cultural movements across the network and its associates. In the cases studied, it became more apparent that the associated with more time and involvement with the network, especially in its management, found it easier to understand the network as an extension of the organization, just more complex, thus helping to drive the objectives, activities and allowing a greater exchange of cultural changes, both of the organizations having something to pass on to the network as well as the network for these organizations, those being willing to make changes because of the network. The role that the network acquires for the organizations depends on the involvement that the organization allows itself to have with the network level, which is usually a little deeper as time goes inside the network, when the most insecure or suspicious associates then begin to engage more with the network, this involvement is essential so that the associated understands the actual role of the network and also learns to use the network benefits. With this relationship, changes may occur in the management of organizations, from small changes in managerial behavior, especially since in most cases the employees do not have much contact - or any contact - with the network. Some changes are reported mainly in regards to finding new and better ways to accomplish everyday tasks in a small organization, but these are the ones that interfer over time, as they solidify in the culture and values, making possible the connection and cultural exchanges.
As redes interorganizacionais despontam como uma oportunidade de sobrevivência e adaptação ao mercado competitivo dos negócios. Sendo estas a união de diversas organizações com objetivos em comum, formam uma organização mais complexa, com elementos como estrutura, cultura e valores organizacionais. A mudança é uma necessidade de adaptação ao ambiente, ocorrendo como no caso de uma organização que deixa de agir só e passa a fazer parte de uma estrutura de redes. As modificações podem ocorrer não só no exterior da organização, como também no seu interior. Assim é preciso pesquisar o contexto social em que estas redes e organizações estão inseridas, para formular proposições sobre as possíveis construções de significados que esta mudança pode ocasionar. Desta forma, este trabalho busca compreender como são construídas as alterações culturais, através de suas rotinas, pelas quais passam as organizações parceiras por participar de uma estrutura em redes interorganizacionais. Para entender a perspectiva real e vívida do objeto de estudo, foi necessário ir a realidade deste, através do método de estudos de multicasos, com três redes participantes com observação e entrevistas com gestores de redes interorganizacionais e oito organizações participantes destas. Com isto, buscou-se compreender como os indivíduos percebem a mudança na cultura e valores da organização que está atuando em rede, quais os movimentos culturais que perpassam de uma para outra. Os resultados foram analisados através do software NVivo 10. Ao conhecer a história de cada rede interorganizacional, bem como a realidade atual de cada uma, foi possível verificar que os fundadores são grandes responsáveis por passar valores que estes praticavam em suas organizações como gestores para a rede, eles encaminham a rede nos seus momentos mais propícios para mudanças, como o estágio inicial, de criação da rede. Além disto, a gestão da rede é uma oportunidade muito ampla para também haver movimentos culturais entre a rede e suas associadas. Nos casos estudados, ficou mais evidenciado que as associadas com mais tempo e envolvimento com a rede, principalmente na gestão, tinham mais facilidade de compreender a rede como uma extensão da organização, apenas um pouco mais complexa, auxiliando a direcionar os objetivos, atividades e assim possibilitando uma maior troca de alterações culturais, tanto destas organizações tendo algo a passar para a rede, quanto da rede para estas organizações, mais dispostas e abertas a realizar modificações por causa da rede. O papel que a rede adquire perante as organizações depende do envolvimento que a organização se permite ter com a rede interorganizacional, que é geralmente um pouco mais aprofundado conforme passa o tempo dentro da rede, quando os associados mais inseguros ou desconfiados começam então a se envolver mais. Este envolvimento é essencial para que o associado compreenda o real papel da rede e também possa se utilizar dos benefícios da rede. Com esta relação, as mudanças ocorrem na gestão das organizações, na mudança de pequenos comportamentos gerenciais, principalmente, já que na maioria dos casos os funcionários não têm muito contato ou nenhum contato com a rede. Mudanças são relatadas principalmente no que diz respeito a buscar novas e melhores formas de realizar pequenas tarefas cotidianas de uma organização, mas são estas que interferem depois ao longo do tempo, conforme se solidificam na cultura e nos valores, realizando a conexão e as trocas culturais.
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Zach, Florian Josef. "PARTNERS AS SUPPLIERS FOR INNOVATION: THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SERVICES BY AMERICAN DESTINATION MARKETING ORGANIZATIONS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/62315.
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Extant literature identified the value of innovative firm behavior for organizational success for manufacturers and service providers (Christensen, 1998; Damanpour, 1991; de Brentani, 1993; Easingwood, 1986; Schumpeter, 1939; Senge, 1994). Increasing complexity of consumer markets, information technologies and an economic environment that forces organizations to rethink their business strategies are especially characteristic for service providers, making the development of new services an essential, but also risky task. A series of organizational conditions, such as a formalized new products/service development process, managerial support for innovation and a culture that encourages innovation were identified as critical for the successful development of innovations. Little research, however, has been done to understand the role of partners for the development of new service, and in particular to evaluate which aspects of new service development benefit the most from partner involvement. To understand the link between organizational settings for innovation and inter-organizational relationships in the new service development process, this study incorporates three areas of research: innovation, supply chain management and inter-organizational relationships. This study was framed within tourism destinations, especially destination marketing organizations (DMOs). They are responsible to market and develop a destination and, due to their role as information intermediaries, their need to collaborate with destination businesses to deliver a seamless tourism experience. This study consists of two major phases. First, a national study among the population of American DMOs was conducted to identify the extent of innovation, the drivers of partner integration in new service development as well as their impact on new services. Second, the value of organizational innovation settings on partnership integration was identified. Study results provide insight into the current status of innovation development and partner integration in the new service development process. The results also indicate that the nature of DMOs was changing from pure marketing organizations to management organizations that actively participate in destination development through innovation. In this study innovation was measured by three core elements: orientation towards demand, strategic and corporate fit as well as newness. DMOs do collaborate with partners to develop new tourism products and services. Partner integration was driven by top management support, as well as a strategic and long-term perspective towards partnerships. Furthermore, partner integration was found to have a positive effect on the strategic and corporate fit as well as market orientation. Lastly, DMOs that organize for the development of new services were found to achieve a more positive effect on innovation. This study concluded that organizations strategically need to engage in inter-organizational relationships with the goal to incorporate partners in the new service development process. Furthermore, organizational strategies towards innovation are critical as they enable the organization to achieve better results. Partnerships, thus, are critical for innovation, whereby innovation can be programmed given that it is supported through organizational settings.
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Vaz, Samir Lótfi. "A siderurgia brasileira a carvão vegetal: um estudo de arranjos verticais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-04112010-183308/.
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Este estudo analisa aspectos que influenciam o desenvolvimento de arranjos verticais na siderurgia brasileira a carvão vegetal. Ele demonstra que produtores de ferro-gusa tendem a realizar mais parcerias e processos de verticalização ao longo da cadeia produtiva, e que tais mudanças devem influenciar positivamente a competitividade e desempenho ambiental das empresas do setor. Seus resultados decorrem do acompanhamento de treze casos, escolhidos por suas contribuições teóricas e pela capacidade de se capturar relatos históricos e em tempo real de processos envolvendo a formação de arranjos verticais. Eles indicam que parcerias e processos de verticalização ao longo da cadeia de valor representam alternativas de produtores de ferro-gusa para se reduzir incertezas, atender a pressões institucionais, obter ganhos em eficiência e atuar em mercados mais estáveis, lucrativos e diferenciados. O desenvolvimento desses arranjos depende de práticas de gestão específicas, no entanto. Por exemplo, a eficiência na verticalização a montante para as atividades envolvendo o carvão vegetal está associada a diversas economias de escala no processo, seja em etapas silviculturais ou de carbonização. A promoção de pequenas carvoarias do país está condicionada igualmente a parcerias intersetoriais, envolvendo siderúrgicas, instituições sem fins lucrativos, comunidade, agentes do governo, dentre outros. Já no âmbito da verticalização para as atividades de fundições de ferro e aciarias, observa-se que tal estratégia passa pelo desenvolvimento de competências relacionadas a habilidades comerciais e qualidade técnica na produção. Vale ressaltar que a dissertação apresenta níveis de análise avançados em relação à grande parte dos estudos sobre o tema, por adotar abordagem setorial e buscar elementos de diferentes perspectivas teóricas. Nesse sentido, merecem destaque em sua revisão de literatura discussões relativas a custos de produção, economia dos custos de transação, competição baseada em competências, escolhas estratégicas e teoria institucional. Em termos metodológicos, a pesquisa segue abordagem qualitativa, tem propósitos exploratórios e adota a estratégia de casos múltiplos. A coleta de dados consistiu principalmente de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com vinte e sete pessoas de quinze diferentes organizações. Todas as entrevistas foram gravadas e transcritas, e para o tratamento desse material foi seguida a técnica de análise de conteúdo, feita com o auxílio do software NVivo 8. A pesquisa indica ainda oportunidades estratégicas para as empresas do setor a partir de três possibilidades de aproximação entre agentes da cadeia produtiva: (i) integração vertical de guseiros para a produção de autopeças; (ii) formação de consórcios industriais para a produção de aço, e (iii) intensificação de alianças e polos industriais de siderúrgicas independentes.This study conducts an analysis of influential aspects to the development of vertical relationships on the Brazilian steel industry that uses wood charcoal as raw material. It shows that pig iron producers tend to realize more partnerships and vertical integration processes along the value chain, and that these changes should improve the competitiveness and environmental performance of the overall sector. The results indicate that these strategies are applied by pig iron producers as an attempt to reduce uncertainties, comply with institutional rules, obtain efficiency gains and act on more stable, profitable and differentiated markets. Nevertheless, the development of these vertical relationships depends on specific management practices. For example, the upstream vertical integration to wood charcoal production activities is correlated to a lot of economies of scale, found on the silviculture or carbonization processes. The progress of Brazilian small charcoal producers is also reliant on intersectoral partnerships, involving companies, nonprofit organizations, communities, government agencies, among others. Considering the downstream vertical integration to steel and foundry activities, it is remarkable that this strategy goes throw the development of competences related to commercial abilities and superior technical quality on the production. It is important to highlight that this dissertation presents an advanced level of analysis comparing to the majority of studies about the topic, because it adopts a sectoral approach and pursuit elements of different theories. In this sense, the literature review is remarkable in its discussions about production costs, transaction cost economics, resource-based view of the firm, strategic choice and institutional theory. In methodological terms, the research follows a qualitative approach, has exploratory purposes and adopts the multiple case study strategy. The data analysis consisted specially on semi-structured interviews conducted with twenty seven executives of fifteen different organizations. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and for the treatment of the data the content analysis technique was adopted, using for it the NVivo 8 software. The research also points out to strategic opportunities of the industry companies from three possibilities of vertical relationships along the value chain: (i) downstream vertical integration of pig iron producers to the automotive parts industry; (ii) formation of industrial condominiums to the steel production, and (iii) intensification of pig iron producers partnerships and industrial conglomerates.
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Holmes, Tamarah. "Playing in the Sandbox: Using Mixed Methods and Social Network to Examine Interorganizational Relationships Between Nonprofit Housing Organizations in the Richmond Metropolitan Area." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3235.
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Nonprofit housing organizations primarily exist to address the housing needs of low-income residents, whose housing needs are not sufficiently met by the public or private housing market. NHOs are very similar to private corporations in their size, productivity and commitment to the “bottom line.” However, unlike private firms, NHOs are “mission driven” instead profit-driven corporations. The development of affordable housing in the nonprofit housing sector requires a myriad of financial and non-financial resources. As competition for financial resources intensifies many organizations are adopting strategies as a means to not only reduce organizational uncertainty and sustain them, but also increase or maintain organizational capacity. The evolution of the role of nonprofit organizations coupled with market pressures such as attracting investment, competing for clients, and retaining and hiring skilled employees shapes the need for them to adopt market culture strategies (Salamon, 1999). A key strategy of market culture is collaboration (Frost and Sullivan, 2006). This dissertation study was designed to examine interorganizational relationships between nonprofit housing organizations in the Richmond Metropolitan area, and the influence of organizational characteristics, environmental conditions, and resource availability on an organization’s Level of Collaboration. Furthermore, the study examined the attitudes and perceptions of executive directors of collaboration. The primary research question is: Do nonprofit housing organizations display identifiable patterns of relationships with each other? This study contributes several important findings to furthering the understanding of collaboration within the nonprofit sector, and the relationship between organizational characteristics, environmental conditions, and resource availability and an organization’s Level of Collaboration (interorganizational relationships). Study findings convey that the examination of the network itself using social network analysis is a useful tool for examining relationships and identifying opportunities for collaboration. For this network it revealed that the organizations interact on an informal basis as well as identified the prominent actors are in the network. The findings of this study suggests that there are two key factors that influence nonprofit organizations establishing relationships interorganizational learning and personal characteristics.
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Zhelyazkov, Pavel. "The Contingent Effects of Prior Ties on Network Dynamics: Essays on the Formation and Dissolution of Interorganizational Relationships in the Venture Capital Industry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467369.
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This dissertation comprises three empirical chapters that investigate the limits of prior interorganizational ties in explaining patterns of tie formation and tie dissolution of interorganizational relationships in the context of the venture capital (VC) industry.
Existing empirical work has demonstrated that two actors have an increased likelihood of forming a direct relationship if both are connected indirectly via ties to the same third party, in part due to the introductions and referrals provided by the shared partner. In contrast, I propose that indirect ties via third parties can either facilitate or hinder the formation of direct relationships depending on the information that the third party provides. The first two chapters substantiate this claim in two empirical settings. In the first chapter, I examine how the success or failure of a VC firm’s syndication affects the likelihood of securing funding from the Limited Partners of its syndication partners. In the second chapter (joint with Ranjay Gulati), I examine how a VC firm that has withdrawn from a syndicate is not only likely to be shunned in the future by its abandoned coinvestors, but is less likely to syndicate with third parties that are connected in some way to the abandoned coinvestors. In other words, withdrawals not only have dyadic repercussions, but have reputational consequences that ripple across interorganizational ties and have long-term implications on tie formation with third parties. Overall, those two chapters make the case that we cannot fully understand the effects of interorganizational ties on future tie formation without knowing the content of the information flowing through those ties.
Whereas the first two chapters focus on elucidating the role of prior ties in tie formation, the final chapter examines the effects of prior ties on tie dissolutions. Prior research has highlighted that a history of collaborative relationships between two parties—also known as embeddedness—creates relational capital that increases the costs of tie termination and thus reduces the likelihood that either of party will withdraw from the relationship. Different theories have conflicting predictions, however, as to how economic shocks affecting the collaboration will affect the stabilizing role of embeddedness. To resolve this puzzle, I differentiate between general performance shocks (which affect all collaborations in a given domain) from specific performance shocks (which apply only to the focal collaboration). Drawing on the idea that actors are more likely to discount ambiguous signals when they have the psychological motivation to do so, I propose that general performance shocks will increase, and specific performance shocks will attenuate, the effects of embeddedness on collaboration stability. I empirically verify my argument in the context of VC firm withdrawals from syndicates, and demonstrate how these effects are shaped by prior ties with the syndication partners, the valuations of the focal industry (i.e., the general performance signals), and the valuation of the focal portfolio company (i.e., specific performance signals). This third study highlights that while social factors are indeed important for predicting tie dissolutions, we can only truly appreciate their role in the context of the economic forces buffeting the collaboration.Organizational Behavior
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Raišienė, Agota Giedrė. "Inter-organizational interaction in the practice of Lithuania's Local Government." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20080201_100003-93650.
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Theoretical and practical aspects of inter-organizational interaction are developed in a dissertation.
The first chapter of the thesis analyses the theoretical background of the inter-organizational interaction in a thorough and integrated way. There is an overview of Lithuanian scholars’ contribution in analysis of different problems related to partnerships and collaboration, the analysis of the inter-organizational interaction concept contents, the analysis of the inter-organizational interaction models, definition of the collaboration determinants, the purification of inter-organizational interaction forms, the description of the joint activities aspects among the main Local Government authorities and other organizations.
The second part analyses the practical aspects of the Local Government inter-organizational interaction.
The first stage of research aimed at highlighting the peculiarities of organization and management of inter-organizational interaction in the municipalities and at defining the main problems. For this purpose, the examples of inter-organizational interaction of Local Government and other public, private and non-government sector organizations were analysed.
In the second stage of research, the inter-organizational interaction is analysed on the micro level. The main objective of the research was to define the features of the meetings of inter-organizational interaction subjects and to highlight the most typical meeting organization and management... [to full text]Disertacijoje nagrinėjami tarporganizacinės sąveikos teoriniai ir praktiniai aspektai. Pirmojoje dalyje susistemintos teorinės žinios apie tarporganizacinę sąveiką: pateikta organizacijų sąveikos teorijų apžvalga, gvildenamos tarporganizacinės sąveikos ir organizacijų integracijos sampratų problemos, analizuojami tarporganizacinės sąveikos modeliai, išryškintos bendradarbiavimo determinantės, gilinamasi į skirtingų tarporganizacinės sąveikos formų (integracinio bendradarbiavimo, partnerystės, kooperacijos ir kt.) turinį. Teorinėje disertacijos dalyje taip pat pristatomos vietos savivaldos tarporganizacinės sąveikos įgyvendinimo strategijos bei sąveikos proceso organizavimo principai, aptariamos kai kurios bendradarbiavimo įgyvendinimo problemos. Antrojoje dalyje analizuojami tarporganizacinės sąveikos Lietuvos vietos savivaldoje tyrimo rezultatai. Pagrindiniai klausimai, į kuriuos siekta atsakyti – kokiu būdu organizuojama ir valdoma vietos savivaldos tarporganizacinė sąveika, ar ši praktika yra veiksminga bendradarbiavimo plėtros požiūriu. Lietuvos vietos savivaldos tarporganizacinė sąveika tirta gilinantis į tris sąveikos sritis: tarporganizacinės sąveikos organizavimas ir valdymas įgyvendinant bendras programas ir projektus (mezo lygmuo), tarporganizacinės sąveikos subjektų susitikimų valdymas (mikro lygmuo) ir vietos savivaldos atstovų požiūrio į tarporganizacinės sąveikos turinį tyrimas (sąveikos konteksto dedamoji makro lygmeniu). Disertacijoje pateiktas skirtingų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Cassidy, Lauren. "Collaborative writing across distances an ethnographic study of workplace writing across coasts and cultures /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3021.
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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 61. Thesis director: Susan Lawrence. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 30, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-60). Also issued in print.
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Strandh, Veronica. "Responding to Terrorist Attacks on Rail Bound Traffic : Challenges for Inter-organizational Collaboration." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-107194.
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Contemporary terrorism is becoming increasingly indiscriminate, and rail bound traffic appears to be vulnerable and at high risk for terrorist attacks. An attack targeting a train or subway system can have enormous implications, both in terms of human suffering and long-term societal consequences. This dissertation aims to analyze how public and private organizations prepare for and respond to crises emanating from terrorism targeting rail bound traffic. It also examines different practices, networks and ideas related to interorganizational collaboration. Contemporary research emphasizes the importance and advantages of collaborative action in crisis management, and the idea of inter-organizational collaboration is also embedded in policy documents and has support among practitioners. Despite this, interorganizational collaboration often turns out to be difficult in practice, and it stands out as a critical factor in many crisis situations. Hence, it is crucial to identify and better understand the challenges associated with interorganizational collaboration in the context of terrorist-induced crises. This dissertation is a contribution to this endeavor. In order to capture the inherent complexity of the topic this dissertation combines and merges literature from three research fields: crisis management research, disaster medicine research and terrorism studies. The dissertation examines international experiences of terrorist attacks directed against rail bound traffic. It identifies the way in which attacks have changed over time and analyzes the main challenges of providing pre-hospital care following a mass-casualty attack. In addition, Sweden is used to provide empirical focus in an analysis of preparedness. Relying on scenario-based interviews with central crisis management actors and actors from rail bound traffic, current preparedness practices for responding to a multi-site terrorist attack on rail bound traffic in Sweden is analyzed. The research shows that both public and private organizations have developed risk awareness about terrorist-induced crises. However, their preparedness practices are characterized by significant variations and substantial uncertainty. Scare resources are a critical factor, and actors find it difficult to invest in preparedness for seldom-occurring crises. This difficulty is accentuated by the fact that no major mass-casualty attack has taken place in Sweden. A terrorist attack differs from a routine event and poses new and different challenges for inter-organizational collaboration. A large number of organizations are supposed to work together under severe time constraints, and their work can be delayed by particular security concerns. It is assumed that rail bound traffic actors engage in collaborative crisis management; however, there appear to be few mechanisms to prepare them, in a systematic way, for managing this particular type of crisis. Among actors, inter-organizational collaboration is understood primarily from a normative view rather than from the point of view of its practical meaning. As a consequence, it is difficult to turn risk awareness and a commitment to working together into actual practical action. In addition, collaboration between different levels in the crisis management system is particularly challenging. This dissertation also identifies a tension between viewing crisis management as an example of policy-as-usual or from a crises-as-exceptions perspective.
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Tzul, Sheril Sherine. "A Game Theory Analysis of Firm Reaction to External Organizational Demands: The Case of Animal Welfare Standards." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29763.
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There has been increasing public concern about farm animal welfare regarding transportation, slaughter, and some management practices, especially in systems where animals are confined for most of their existence. Animal welfare organizations (groups) have traditionally focused on forwarding their agendas through legislation, although more recent attempts have focused on convincing large firms that buy agricultural commodities to require particular production process standards to be met. The strategic interactions of players in the egg industry are modeled using a game theory approach. Two scenarios were explored: a principal-agent contract model between food firms and farmers, and a model where two firms are targeted by animal activists. The former model was empirically analyzed while the latter model was theoretically examined. Results for the principal-agent contract model indicate that, in general, the decision by the farmer of whether to invest in a free-range production system is dependent on the probability of being caught cheating. Whether contracts will be accepted or rejected by suppliers is dependent on the premium for free-range eggs. Finally, as the amount that can be lost if caught breaching the contract decreases, investment is motivated only with a higher probability of being caught. Theoretical analysis where competition did not matter and animal welfare was not a determinant of demand shows that animal activists must convince food firms that there will be a significant change in revenue with compliance as opposed to rejecting the contract or negotiating a compromise in order to attain their objectives of increased animal welfare.