Coordination Strategy and the Configuration of Interorganisational Relations

Abstract

IOS affect dimensions such as the boundaries of firms, Interorganisational division of labour as well as decisions about goverance structures and industrial organisation. While there is a strong trend in the current literature to argue in terms of economic logic, such as “the contingencies of the economic rationale determine the selection of governance forms”, we want to emphasise the role of strategic calculations with respect to the choice and combinaion of different forms of governance. Consequently, strategic management should be augmented by coordination strategy which covers the different aspects of the design and maintenance of Inter-organisational arrangements.