This study is centered on inter-functional coordination in relation to organizational commitment in the hotel industry. Inter-functional coordination is defined in this study as the communication and sharing of information and resources, and integration and collaboration of different functional areas/departments. Organizational commitment is a psychological state that characterizes the employee...

Inter-organizational collaborative networks are often seen as dynamic entities able to evolve over time. Investigating the development of interfirm collaboration implies understanding of how changes unfold and what are the generative mechanisms underlying these changes. Grounded on theories of organizational change, this paper develops a propositional framework that examines the ‘constructive m...

While in recent years research has highlighted the rise of inter-organizational collaboration among organizations in the nonprofit sector and has documented issues related to forming and maintaining of these relationships, there is little known about inter-organizational humanitarian information exchange and especially the motives of collaboration. In this paper, we examine collaboration relati...

nowadays, the process of knowledge sharing has gone beyond organizational boundaries and the issue of knowledge sharing is discussed widely among different companies and organizations in order to improve their performance. with the emergent of outsourcing process and increasing attention of organizations toward it, managers are more inclined to outsource their services; but, the problem of inte...

BACKGROUND Our study aimed to design a tool of evaluating intersectional collaboration on Non-communicable Chronic Disease (NCD) prevention and control, and further to understand the current status of intersectional collaboration in community health service institutions of China. METHODS We surveyed 444 main officials of community health service institutions in Beijing, Tianjin, Hubei and Nin...

Inter-organizational communication has been documented as a critical factor in promoting strategic collaboration among firms. In this paper, we seek to extend the stream of research in supply chain management by systematically investigating the antecedents and performance outcomes of inter-organizational communication. Specifically, inter-organizational communication is proposed as a relational...

Collaboration between organizations is generally seen as a pre-requisite for dealing with complex problems, but such efforts appear to be inherently difficult and often disappoint expectations regarding their problem-solving capacity. In this article we add the existing literature by taking systemic, landscape perspective on collaborative success failure. Using case study of urban regeneration ...

Over past several years, there have been increasing needs for more efficient approaches to the design and implementation of inter-organizational business processes. The process collaboration spanning organizational boundaries is deemed to keep the organization autonomy, which means each organization owns its freedom of modifying internal operations to meet their private goals while satisfying t...