The advent of Internet technologies during the past decade has accelerated the diffusion of interorganizational networks and has intensified collaboration among organizations. Currently, most interorganization systems have moved to the public Internet network and rely on Internet and associated standards such as XML to codify and exchange data. Though often portrayed as a narrow technical matte...

As the external environment and alliance partnerships become more complex, managers should consider appropriate partners to enhance the efficiency and performance of their chain, as well as to gain potential competitive advantages (Chang, et al., 2007). Additionally, due to increasing global competition many organizations are aware of the benefits of using electronic solutions to support their ...

 The Internet’s World Wide Web has become the prime driver of contemporary Electronic commerce (E-commerce). Although the emphasis has moved from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to the Internet, the focus is still on the technology required to exchange information rather than supporting business processes crossing organizational borders. E-commerce is not just about facilitating individual b...

Developments in network technology have enabled an increasing variety of interorganizational relationships. While the interorganizational systems (IOSs) that support electronic markets or customer/supplier relations have been discussed in the literature, those which support `symbiotic networks' ± those which form horizontal alliances to allow collaboration on the collective production of goods ...

interorganizational coordination (ioc) is a critical part of planning, because planning mostly involves multiple organizational interactions. investment and employment are considered as multi-dimensional and multi-sectional challenges that the management of them requires intersectional and interorganizational cooperation. the goal of this research is the investigation of the interorganizational...

This paper introduces network analysis as a way to theorize about another dimension of relationships: interorganizational relationships. Through a case study of inter-organizational relationships in the civil society movement in Croatia, this paper outlines the various ways public relations serves a relationship building function. Through the use of network analysis, we propose a model of how o...