Interorganizational Relationships Research Articles

Reexamining the relationship between knowledge paradox and collaborative performance

Purpose This study aims to empirically investigate how knowledge paradox affects collaboration performance. Knowledge paradox, which arises from the simultaneous need for knowledge sharing and protection, is common in interorganizational collaboration. Using the ambidexterity perspective, this paper aims to reexamine the effect of the knowledge paradox on collaborative performance to explore the moderating roles of structural and contextual ambidexterity. Design/methodology/approach This study used a sample of 153 firms involved in vertical and horizontal collaboration, collected via questionnaires. Hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings This study demonstrates that the stronger the knowledge paradox is, the higher the potential for value creation. Thus, knowledge paradox has a positive impact on collaborative performance. The functions of structural ambidexterity and contextual ambidexterity strengthen this positive relationship. Originality/value This paper not only expands the theoretical application of the knowledge paradox and ambidexterity theory in the context of interorganizational relationships but also provides significant managerial implications. By comprehending the dynamics of the knowledge paradox and the role of ambidexterity, managers can make well-informed decisions to enhance their collaborative performance.

COLLABORATIVE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE SHARING ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

This study examines the impact of the sharing economy on collaborative supply chain management among Turkish international trade firms. The sharing economy, which involves temporary access to underutilized resources via digital platforms, has challenged traditional supply chain models, necessitating resilient and flexible collaborations. The research utilizes the Inter-organizational Relationships (IOR), Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), and Resource-Based View (RBV) frameworks, highlighting dynamic capabilities. Through structural equation modeling and expert interviews, the findings reveal that trust and information sharing are essential, but their effects on e-collaboration are complex. Trust negatively correlates with e-collaboration, indicating that electronic platforms may mediate trust in low-trust environments. On the other hand, performance expectancy and facilitating conditions significantly boost e-collaboration adoption. The study identifies e-collaboration as a dynamic capability, improving operational performance, customer/supplier satisfaction, growth, and profitability. This research contributes theoretically by integrating organizational and individual perspectives on e-collaboration and elucidates the intricate relationships between trust, information sharing, and technology in supply chains. Practical recommendations are provided for leveraging technological innovations to enhance trust and information sharing in collaborative supply chains.

Efficiency analysis in bi-level on fuzzy input and output

To enhance the conventional framework of data envelope analysis (DEA), a novel hybrid bi-level model is proposed, integrating fuzzy logic with triangular fuzzy numbers to effectively address data uncertainty. This model innovatively departs from the traditional DEA’s ’black box’ approach by incorporating inter-organizational relationships and the internal dynamics of decision-making units (DMUs). Utilizing a modified Russell’s method, it provides a nuanced efficiency analysis in scenarios of ambiguous data. The study aims to enhance the accuracy and applicability of Data Envelopment Analysis in uncertain data environments. To achieve this, a novel hybrid bi-level model integrating fuzzy logic is presented. Validated through a case study involving 15 branches of a private Iranian bank, the model demonstrates improved accuracy in efficiency assessments and paves the way for future research in operational systems uncertainty management. The results indicated that, among the 15 branches of a private Iranian bank analyzed for the year 2022, branches 1, 10, and 11 demonstrated leader-level efficiency, while branch 3 exhibited follower-level efficiency, and branch 1 achieved overall efficiency. These branches attained an efficiency rating of E++, signifying a high level of efficiency within the model’s parameters.

Ambidexterity of hospitality trade associations: a social capital perspective for destination coordination and cooperation dynamics

ABSTRACT This study explores the critical role of trade associations in sustaining coordination and cooperation dynamics within tourism destinations. Acknowledging both the bright and dark sides of interorganizational relationships (IORs) in tourism, where extensive connections can produce beneficial outcomes as well as adverse effects like inertia, this research provides a nuanced examination of these dynamics. Utilising a constructivist grounded theory approach informed by social capital theory, this study examines the role of trade associations in Venice's hospitality sector through 22 in-depth interviews. As a result of applying Gioia’s methodology for qualitative analysis, trade associations emerge as pivotal actors providing the opportunity to leverage close-knit networks by offering collective services and fostering resource pooling and information sharing among their members; on the other hand, they emerged also as acting as system coordinators, strategy designers, and providing a flexible structure for prompt collective decision-making at the destination level. These findings reveal that trade associations play a crucial role in facilitating coordination and cooperation within tourist destinations by fostering the development of bonding capital at the dyadic level and bridging capital at the systemic level.

Collaboration and support between Chilean schools from an egonet mixed-method approach

AbstractThis study aims to characterise inter-organisational collaboration and support networks between schools in a privatised, marketised, and competitive school system. It is located within and contributes to a body of literature on school networks, which has primarily focused on studying the architecture and conditions for the sustainability of the arrangements where collaboration and support between schools are meant to take place. However, there has been less focus on examining the partnerships themselves, particularly those formed organically by schools. This is an exploratory study that takes a novel convergent mixed-method egonet Social Network Analysis approach. Primary data were produced from interviews with sixteen primary school headteachers from a local area in Santiago, Chile. Participants were encouraged to name and reflect on other schools with which their schools have an inter-organisational relationship. Insights show that schools draw on both mandated and organically formed inter-organisational relationships to collaborate and support each other. These ties tend to be built with schools alike and geographically close. Some of the main drivers to turn to others are ensuring the sustainability of schools, generating coordinated responses to policy mandates, sharing practice and knowledge, and ensuring students’ schooling trajectories. This study, situated within the broader context of school networking literature, proposes that schools exist within multiple networks, with various connections serving different purposes, some of which are rarely acknowledged. It suggests that while formal school networks and governance structure are important, they are insufficient to represent the inter-organisational relationships in which schools are involved.

How critical junctures shape secessionist movement cohesion: Strategies, framing processes, and interorganizational relations before and after the 2017 referendum in Catalonia

How critical junctures shape secessionist movement cohesion: Strategies, framing processes, and interorganizational relations before and after the 2017 referendum in Catalonia

Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution

The paper theorises how a place can influence the emergence and evolution of an exchange field. Specifically, we examine the Society for Arts and Technology building in Montreal, focusing on its geographical location, material form, and meanings as their adaptations over time. Our findings identify three types of influence that the SAT building has on the field of projection mapping: supporting the community, fostering interorganisational relationships, and catalysing innovation. These influences manifest in distinct ways depending on the field’s evolution phase. We contribute to the literature on field configuration by developing the concept of the field-configuring place and distinguishing it from the established concept of the field-configuring event. Additionally, we extend the institutional dynamics literature by showing how a place can support the configuration of a field from its emergence, based on its characteristics that can be adapted while providing stability. This study thus underlines the cross-fertilisation between the literature on field configuration and that on places.

Data-related tensions in digital servitization ecosystems: A systematic literature review

This article investigates data-related tensions and their corresponding coping strategies arising from inter-firm collaboration in digital servitization ecosystems. We conducted a systematic literature review based on thematic and network analyses, covering a sample of 191 articles on digital servitization. The findings offer a set of 11 tensions organized into six dimensions: (i) data strategy, (ii) data partnership governance, (iii) data reliability, (iv) data security and privacy, (v) data interoperability, and (vi) data lifecycle. Additionally, we identify seven coping strategies to address these tensions, which we categorized into three approaches: (i) governance, (ii) technology, and (iii) organization. These tensions and their corresponding coping strategies are arranged and presented in a conceptual framework, leading into five propositions. We also provide a research agenda outlining future research opportunities to expand knowledge on the tensions arising from inter-organizational relationships when creating and providing data-driven services. For practitioners, we offer insights into how to manage ecosystem relationships by suggesting strategies to cope with these tensions, and for policy makers we shed light on crucial matters for future data governance policies and laws.

Tejiendo el futuro sostenible de la mano del capital social: Un enfoque desde la participación comunitaria

The research sought to analyze the relationship between social capital and sustainable development in the context of rural agricultural producers considering the interacting factors. The methodology was quantitative, under a non-experimental cross-sectional design, the sample is 40 agricultural producers to whom the instrument called Trust Index questionnaire was applied. The study identified the categories credibility, respect, impartiality, pride and camaraderie as notable elements in the substrate of the organizational fabric; where producers play a relevant role in local development processes. The research concludes that sustainable development in rural areas requires adequate intra- and inter-organizational collaborative relationships and that public policies and private interventions must allocate budgets to the promotion of efficient associations with a high organizational climate.

Revisiting research on the governance of interorganizational relationships

This essay re-examines the literature on the governance of interorganizational relationships, focusing on the insights of alliance research using transaction cost economics. Despite substantial progress, challenges arise because research has not devoted attention to some mechanisms of governance (i.e., administrative controls and supporting legal institutions) compared with others (i.e., incentives). Parties can develop bespoke collaborative agreements that mix and match various mechanisms of governance along these dimensions, rather than accessing a typical bundle commonly associated with a discrete organizational form. This conclusion challenges the iconic governance continuum and surfaces new methodological opportunities for this research stream. The essay also challenges what we think we know by identifying a variety of omitted variable problems that often crop up in governance research (e.g., focusing on the cooperative context of collaboration while not attending to the competitive context, excluding critical administrative structures when studying the interplay between contracts and trust, assuming transactional attributes are exogenous rather than endogenous to a search process, failing to account for shifting institutional supports for collaboration, etc.). By clarifying what we know and do not know about alliance governance, the essay identifies some pathways for developing more reliable, cumulative knowledge on interorganizational relationships.

Calculative trust, benevolent trust and supplier opportunism: the double edged role of IT infrastructure capability

PurposeThis paper aims to explore how two dimensions of trust, calculative trust and benevolent trust, affect supplier opportunism, and further investigates how information technology (IT) infrastructure capability moderates the relationship between calculative trust, benevolent trust and local supplier opportunism.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses ordinary least square regression to test the hypotheses, using survey data from 164 buyer–supplier relationships.FindingsThe findings suggest that both rational and emotional dimensions of trust, calculative trust and benevolent trust, have negative effect on the opportunistic behavior of suppliers. Furthermore, IT infrastructure capability amplifies the inhibitory effect of calculative trust on supplier’s opportunism, while diminishing the effect of benevolent trust on suppressing supplier’s opportunism.Originality/valueThis study investigates the impacts of both rational and emotional dimensions of trust on opportunistic behavior, thereby enhancing the comprehension of the multifaceted nature of trust in interfirm relationships and contributing valuable insights into interorganizational relationship governance. Moreover, this study reveals the double-edged moderating roles of IT infrastructure capability in supply chain relationships, presenting innovative perspectives within the research on exploring the role of IT capability in business-to-business marketing relationships.

Pengembangan Kapasitas Kelompok Tani Tunas Makmur Dalam Pengelolaan Produk Nanas Di Kelurahan Sungai Pakning Kabupaten Bengkalis

This research was conducted because Sungai Pakning Village, Bengkalis Regency, was one of the areas that experienced land and forest fires that occurred in Riau Province in 2015. So far, peatland management has often failed, both by the government and companies. One of their failures is that they only focus on land restoration and ignore community empowerment. With the independent peat village program created by PT. Pertamina RU II Production, Sungai Pakning, Bengkalis Regency. Among the independent peat village programs, there is an environmental conservation program which has become the center of attention for environmental observers, namely the development of peat forests to manage pineapple products. This research aims to determine the capacity development of the Tunas Makmur Farmer group in managing pineapple products and to find out what are the supporting factors for capacity development in the Tunas Makmur Farmer group in Sungai Pakning, Bengkalis Regency. This research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method. Data was obtained through interviews and field observations. The results of this research show that the capacity development measure according to Ilato has demonstrated good capacity in aspects of organizational structure, decision making processes, work procedures and mechanisms and inter-organizational relationships. Good capacity development is supported by 1) facilities and infrastructure, which are being developed continuously, 2) good cooperation between various parties or institutions involved in developing the capacity of the Tunas Makmur Farmers Group.

Incarnation and decay: reconciling the organizational decision-making and organizational institutional theory perspectives on budgetary research

PurposeThe organizational decision-making perspective (ODM) has a legacy regarding its concern for budgeting as an essential organizational routine in decision-making. Budgeting has also become a direct concern to organizational institutional theory (OIT) because of its prominent role in institution building, where budgeting can build trust in inter-organizational relationships. This paper builds on these two perspectives to explore organizational budget processes' formation, disruption, and re-creation over time.Design/methodology/approachWe conducted a comprehensive review and critical analysis of the ODM and OIT perspectives, focusing on a fundamental paradox between ODM's emphasis on stability through organizational routines and OIT's focus on organizational legitimacy through the decoupled expression of organizational values. We then expanded on these paradoxical concerns in the context of budgeting, formalizing them into specific research propositions for future studies.FindingsTensions around the stability, decay, and re-creation of budgets as organizational routines emerge as a pressing issue requiring further empirical investigation from the ODM perspective. A critical issue in the OIT perspective is the potential for organizational budgets to provide an opportunity to decouple from practice through routinized expressions of rationality and to facilitate loose coupling in practice. These findings offer a fresh perspective and open up new avenues for future research in this area.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the accounting and organizational research literature by shedding light on how organizations respond to the potential decay of budget routines and the manifestation of organizational values in decoupling processes by further re-creating and elaborating budget processes.

Interorganizational Relationships and Hybrid Organizations: Understanding Antecedents and Outcomes

Interorganizational Relationships and Hybrid Organizations: Understanding Antecedents and Outcomes

Boundary-Spanning Experiences of Middle Managers and Interorganizational Relationship Renewal

Boundary-Spanning Experiences of Middle Managers and Interorganizational Relationship Renewal

A Study on Conflicts in Sport Organizations over the Establishment of the National Sports Policy Committee: Focusing on the Inter-organizational Relationships between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee

A Study on Conflicts in Sport Organizations over the Establishment of the National Sports Policy Committee: Focusing on the Inter-organizational Relationships between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee

Non-Big 6 audit firms’ access to external resources through inter-organisational relationships

Small audit firms try to reduce their resource constraints in serving clients by creating inter-organisational relationships (IORs) through membership in accounting networks or in agreements with individual firms. Through these relationships, firms have access to audit manuals/methodology, personnel, and may perform joint audits and joint marketing of their audit services. We identify the existence of IORs from PCAOB Form 2 filings and test whether audit quality and fees vary cross-sectionally as a function of the specific resource obtained from the IOR. We find evidence that firms with access to audit technology through IORs charge higher audit fees and provide higher quality audits, in terms of smaller clients’ performance-matched discretionary accruals, higher auditors’ likelihood of issuing going concern opinions to financially distressed clients, and fewer audit deficiencies identified in PCAOB inspection reports. The findings highlight the importance of access to audit technology through IORs in improving small audit firms’ real and perceived audit quality.

The interplay among trust, reciprocity and commitment factors in facilitating supply chain collaboration: the case of Vietnamese fishery industry

PurposeSupply chain collaboration is increasingly important in today’s competitive business environment. While prior research has acknowledged the role of relationships in facilitating collaboration, few studies have considered inter-personal and inter-organisational attributes simultaneously. This study addresses this gap by investigating these two levels of the manufacturer-supplier relationship in Vietnam’s fishery industry and their impacts on supply chain collaboration.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a quantitative approach. A questionnaire was distributed to 635 fishery manufacturers in Vietnam by the drop-and-collect method. EFA and CFA were used to assess the reliability and validity of the measurement model, while CB-SEM was employed for structural model assessment and hypothesis testing.FindingsSupply chain collaboration encompasses incentive alignment, collaborative communication, decision synchronisation, and information sharing. All antecedents, including commitment, inter-organisational trust, reciprocity, and inter-personal trust, positively affect collaboration. Inter-personal trust positively influences the other antecedents, and inter-organisational trust enhances commitment. Furthermore, there are partial mediating effects among these relationship attributes. However, no significant moderating effect regarding firm size is observed.Originality/valueThe study extends the social exchange theory to encompass both inter-personal and inter-organisational relationship attributes. Additionally, it pioneers in investigating the interrelatedness of these antecedents. By addressing the research gap in the Vietnamese fishery supply chain, it offers valuable insights for both academics and practitioners, contributing to theoretical understanding and practical implications in supply chain collaboration.

How Can Policy Diffusion of Intergovernmental Public Health Emergency Cooperation Be Realized? Evidence from China

The complexity of interregional crises challenges global emergency management, highlighting the need for enhanced intergovernmental emergency cooperation. The article focuses on the policy diffusion of intergovernmental public health emergency cooperation (IPHEC) among local governments, proposing an analytical framework that includes internal organizational characteristics, an external organizational environment, and interorganizational relationships. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), it finds four pathways influencing the policy diffusion of IPHEC: economic-pressure response, economic-crisis driven, resource-pressure driven, and resource-crisis-trust coordinated. Factors including economic development level, resource supply level, administrative pressure, crisis situation, and trust basis exhibit different operational logics within these four pathways.

Cross-sector partnerships in the South City Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI): An exploratory case study of collaboration network structure and process in Memphis, Tennessee

ABSTRACT Mixed-income initiatives represent promising anti-poverty strategies that assist families living in public housing in the United States. However, little is known about the extensive cross-sector partnerships required for implementation. We address these knowledge gaps by exploring partnerships within the South City Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) in Memphis, Tennessee. The following research questions guide the study: (1) what is the structure of inter-organizational relationships within the South City CNI partner network? and (2) what collaboration processes emerge within the network structure regarding communication, collaboration, and trust? Utilizing an exploratory case study design that leveraged social network analysis (SNA) and in-depth interviews, we found that the South City CNI was relatively dense and moderately centralized. A core group of partners was central for coordinating information and resources, but roles and positionality changed across each network. The presence of a high-capacity lead organization and multiple bridging organizations aided implementation. We conclude by discussing implications for practice, policy, and research.