Cross-organizational Cooperation Research Articles

Strategies to enhance the corporate innovation resilience in digital era: A cross-organizational collaboration perspective

The current economic environment is characterized by increasing uncertainty, while digitalization has led to profound transformations in both the economy and society. There is a pressing need to conduct an in-depth investigation into the specific effects of cross-organizational cooperation on firms' innovation resilience (FIR) in the digital era, as well as the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. This study utilizes panel data encompassing 30 Chinese provinces and municipalities, intending to analyze the impact of market-based and science-based cross-organizational cooperation on FIR and explore the heterogeneity of this impact. Moreover, the study examines the mediating and moderating mechanisms that influence the relationship between cross-organizational cooperation and FIR. The findings indicate that both market-based cooperation, including cooperation with suppliers (CS) and cooperation with customers (CC), and science-based industry-university-research cooperation (IURC) significantly enhance FIR, with science-based IURC demonstrating the most pronounced effect. Additionally, it is revealed that the impact of market-based and science-based cross-organizational cooperation exhibits spatial heterogeneity in promoting FIR. Market-based and science-based cross-organizational cooperation effectively improves enterprise liquidity, enhances operational efficiency, and consequently enhances innovation resilience (IR). Moreover, the positive impact of cross-organizational cooperation on FIR is amplified by increasing the degree of digital transformation and digital technological innovation.

Cooperation mode for concrete formwork reuse among construction sites

Cooperation mode for concrete formwork reuse among construction sites

Fabric-GC: A Blockchain-based Gantt chart system for cross-organizational project management

Large-scale production is always associated with more and more development and interaction among peers, and many fields achieve higher economic benefits through project cooperation. However, project managers in the traditional centralized approach cannot rearrange their activities to cross-organizational project management. Thanks to its characteristics, the Blockchain can represent a valid solution to the problems mentioned above. In this article, we propose Fabric-GC, a Blockchain-based Gantt chart system. Fabric-GC enables to realize secure and effective cross-organizational cooperation for project management, providing access control to multiple parties for project visualization. Compared with other solutions, the proposed system is versatile, as it can be applied to project management in different fields and achieve effective and agile scheduling. Experimental results show that Fabric-GC achieves stable performance in large-scale request and processing distributed environments, where the data synchronization speed of the consortium chain reached four times faster than a public chain, achieving faster data consistency.

Interorganizational Cooperation and Youth Policy: Case of Utena

The implementation of youth policy is closely connected to interorganizational cooperation between the organizations that are active in the field of youth activities. The goal of this paper is to present the results of a study wherein the factors that possibly determine cooperation between youth organizations and the local government administration in the Utena District municipality were studied. According to the studies on cooperation and organizational behavior, the factors that contribute to cooperation are the following: an uncertainty of the future, possessing mutual goals, the costs and benefits of cooperation maintenance, and the level of trust between organizations. In order to determine the exact combination of factors and how they contribute to cross-organizational cooperation, a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis was conducted. The possible cooperation situations between the organizations that are active in the field of youth and the local government administration were the study cases. The semistructured interview method was employed in order to interview the representatives of local the government administration and organizations. The results of data analysis revealed that the most important factor for interorganizational cooperation in the field of youth policy is the level of trust between organizations in the Utena District municipality.

Change management of service-based business processes

Service-oriented computing paradigm and web service technologies facilitate cross-organizational cooperation. The business processes of involved organizations are referred to as service-based business processes (SBPs). The dynamic nature makes SBPs subject to changes in the internal and external requirements. It is critical to have a method to manage changes in SBPs. In this work, we propose a Petri net-based model with the correctness verification capability for modeling. We also identify a set of SBP change patterns. An SBP change management framework is proposed with a demonstration. Even though the problem of change management has been extensively studied in BPM field and web service field, existing approaches are limited to deal with the diversity of the SBP components and the complexity of the dependencies among these components.

Integrating the ‘Troublemakers’: A taxonomy for cooperation between banks and fintechs

Abstract The banking sector has been subject to fundamental changes as digitalization is enabling novel technology-driven banking services and is creating new customer demands. While banks face sluggish innovation processes, fintechs take advantage of the digital era, delivering customer-centric solutions. Although banks have realized that cooperation with fintechs is a key approach to foster innovation, they struggle to address the associated challenges. Yet, there has been very little research into this phenomenon, so as to establish best practices, because neither bank-fintech cooperation, nor associated and relevant characteristics have been evaluated. However, especially from an economic and financial perspective it is crucial to close this research gap to better understand how technology-driven organizations and cooperating with them reshapes the financial sector and therefore entire economies. Thus, we propose a theoretically founded and empirically proven taxonomy. Based on the literature, 136 real-world cases, and 12 expert interviews, our results suggest structuring and describing bank-fintech cooperation through 13 dimensions. Further, the empirical examination allows for the identification of prevailing cooperation patterns. Our findings contribute to theory development on fintechs, their integration into the banking sector, and the cross-organizational cooperation research area. This paper also has practical implications for both banks and fintechs, and opens promising avenues for future research.

Idealistic incentives in non-governmental organization innovativeness: bridging theoretical gaps

Abstract This paper bridges the theoretical gap between traditional innovation studies and more recent studies of innovation among civil society actors and contexts. The paper presents a study of the nature and function of idealistic incentives in innovativeness of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based on case studies of two national NGOs in Sweden, the Sensus Study Association and the Church of Sweden. The results show that the idealistic incentives of a basic view of human beings focusing on dignity and solidarity in the studied cases are closely related to various forms of NGO innovativeness, including the identification of challenges and needs, the aspired change at individual, organizational and societal levels, the involvement of concerned groups, and in cross-organizational and cross-sectoral cooperation. This contributes new knowledge not only of what NGO innovation entails and how it is brought about, but also of why such processes are initiated and thus why individual, organizational and societal transformation is essential in such processes. As part of this, the probable impact of beliefs, norms, ideologies and identities on all innovation processes, regardless of sectoral context, is highlighted.

Impact of Vision, Strategy, and Human Resource on Nonprofit Organization Service Performance

Abstract Non-profit Organizations (NPOs) have become a third party of concatenation with government, and business community. Numerous NPOs involved mostly their activities in cross-organizational cooperation with the governments and the private enterprises. However, due to the ambiguous marketing and vague organizations’ vision, NPOs faced challenges in accessing more funds. This study explores the causal relationships among of organizational vision, management strategies, and human resource management on NPOs’ service performance in order to discover the reasonable management methods. This study combined the interview and structural relationship method (SEM) to explore the relationships of vision, strategies, human resource and service performance on NPO management. A total of 529 participants from five NPOs volunteered to participate in the study. All of them are employees whose works are related to foreign affairs. Questionnaires were used to collect the quantitative data, and AMOS software was used for the SEM analysis. Interview results showed that because of the limitation of funds, NPOs must maintain their excellent quality in services, and in advance, focus on maintaining the best public image to get additional funds from the government and other enterprises. Internally, they must focus on the management efficiency and make innovative business strategies to ensure a good impression. For human resource management, based on the different characteristics and willingness of employees in jobs, NPOs should assign suitable works for individuals in order to keep the organization's morale and coherence. Furthermore, based on the SEM, the organization's vision has a positive significant impact on management strategies, and management strategies have a positive significant impact on human resource management. However, the vision, strategies and human resources have no noticeable influence on service performance in NPOs.

Key antecedents and practices for Supply Chain Management adoption in project contexts

Abstract An adequate identification of antecedents is recognized as fundamental in order to set the basis for connecting the inter-organizational networks in a SCM perspective. This work aims to identify key antecedents of SCM in a project-based environment by using Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM). This is firstly useful in order to highlight the relationships among the antecedents and to deduce priority for their achievement. The findings provide a hierarchical perspective of the 16 identified antecedents. In particular, three macro-classes of prerequisites were defined: cross-organizational cooperation, rules and procedures — accessibility, and super-ordinate goals. Moreover, results from a longitudinal and illustrative case study are also presented in order to compare the out-coming ISM model with evidence from a success case in the Yacht-building context so offering interesting insights about the implementation process. From a managerial perspective, the proposed model offers a conceptual path for SCM adoption, emphasizing most critical issues that have to be considered and organized in this complex and unpredictable setting.