This paper investigates the comparative role of several factors, including information technology (IT), predicting the level of cooperation between two independent organizations. Drawing upon multiple theoretical perspectives we develop five hypotheses about the impact on cooperation of three sets of factors: (1) the characteristics of the environment within which the relationship operates, (2)...

Industrial clusters are highly concentrated professional environments, being a potential area for development of dynamic managerial capabilities and interorganizational learning. This study proposes to identify learning mechanisms their integration the in technology cluster. is an exploratory research it uses qualitative approach through single-case study. The data analysis was based on content...

Based on ethnographic studies of two business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (EC) marketplaces and a review of interorganizational relationship literature, this paper proposes a model explaining why organizations form alliances to create and why organizations join B2B EC marketplaces. This paper proposes viewing B2B EC marketplaces as a public good. The paper uses public good theory as a...

Web service composition is a new way for implementing business processes. In particular, a choreography supportsmodeling and enactment of interorganizational business processes consisting of autonomous organizations. Temporal constraints are important quality criteria. We propose a technique for modeling temporal constraints in choreographies and orchestrations, checking whether the orchestrati...

Are interorganizational network ties “placeless” or “placed”? The study of organizations, particularly the study of interorganizational network ties, has reemerged in urban sociology, yet the urban literature on place and the organizations literatures on organizational network activity are not fully integrated. This article bridges these theories through an investigation of the social and spati...

Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has formed the basis of interorganizational governance research for the past thirty years. This paper summarizes TCE and explores some of its criticisms, namely its restricted solution set and its ignorance of trustbased behaviors. Some of these concerns are addressed by the relational view of interorganizational governance, although a more compelling solution a...

This article investigates, for leadership research, the implications of new directions in social network theory that emphasize networks as both cognitive structures in the minds of organizational members and opportunity structures that facilitate and constrain action. We introduce the four core ideas at the heart of the network research program: the importance of relations, actors' embeddedness...

There is a growing interest in intraand interorganizational network dynamics. The central question in the latter domain is, ‘‘How do firms choose collaborative partners given their present network configuration, their goals, and characteristics, to get a strategic network position?’’ We introduce actor-oriented network models as a method to describe and explain the development of interorganizat...

Government agencies globally are facing problems such as illegal immigration, terrorism, and disease diagnosis and control. Solutions to these problems rely heavily on collaborating organizations’ ability to effectively and efficiently share not only data but also knowledge embedded in organizational and interorganizational policies, regulations and constraints. Responding to an emergency often...