Inside Networks

A Process View on Multi-organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks

Edited by Tobias Gössling, Department of Strategy and CSR Centre of Excellence, KEDGE Business School, France, Leon Oerlemans, Professor and Rob Jansen, Lecturer, Department of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

This book advances our understanding of interaction processes in multi-organisational partnerships, alliances and networks. By adopting a relational approach on collaboration, control, learning, conflict in and failure of inter-organisational relationships and networks, the book attempts to fill an existing gap in the literature. In so doing, it poses and answers leading questions such as: Which processes matter inside inter-organisational relationships and networks? What are the consequences of relations within them?

”。这本书提供了一种金属氧化物半导体t valuable addition for network scholars. . . a fresh and focused collection of theoretical and empirical work is desired and welcomed. . . Organizational and network scholars will thus benefit a great deal from the internal, qualitative, conflict-based and complex analytical structures and empirical insights offered by this book.’
– Amalya L. Oliver, Organising Studies

‘This is a important collection of articles that teach us about the relational processes that underlie inter-organizational relations and network learning. They address the question of how are inter-organizational relations formed, maintained, and dissolved looking at the content of ties, culture, leadership, cognition, emotions, and social and behavioural controls. This is a valuable resource for scholars and managers of inter-organizational collaborations.’
– Joe Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona, US

‘This collection of papers represents a significant step towards a more processual approach to the study of multi-organizational arrangements such as alliances and networks. With exciting new concepts such as collaborative capacity and network learning, it adds much to our knowledge on how these arrangements function.’
– Jörg Sydow, Free University of Berlin, Germany

‘Gössling, Oerlemans, and Jansen provide a nice addition to the burgeoning literature on organizational networks. In particular, their books focus on network processes; most notably, control, learning and failure, is a welcome addition to the more traditional structural literature on multi-organizational relationships. It should be read by all serious students of partnerships and networks.’
– Keith G. Provan, University of Arizona, US

‘No organization is an isolated island. All organizations are connected to others through various collaborations, alliances and networks. While research into these forms of connectivity has been increasing markedly in recent years much of it remains surprisingly static, structural and statistical in orientation. Inside Networks breaks with this tradition to present research that is processual, qualitative and focused on the nature of the interactions that constitute these innovative collaborations, alliances and networks.’
– Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia