Inside Networks by Tobias Gossling & Leon Oerlemans & Rob Jansen

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

Helps understand the interaction processes in multi-organisational partnerships, alliances and networks. This book adopts a relational approach on collaboration, control, learning, conflict in and failure of inter-organisational relationships and networks. It addresses a number of key processes essential to their functioning and performance. 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? The contributors' approach is relatively novel in the field of network studies: the process or relational stance taken complements existing knowledge on structural characteristics of inter-organisational relationships and networks. A number of key processes essential to their functioning and performance are addressed, and a future research agenda for structuralist, interactionist and combined approaches is recommended. Academics and practitioners focussing on organisation studies in general, and inter-organisational network research more specifically, will find this book a compelling read, as will consultants in inter-organisational collaboration and relationships.
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ISBN-10 : 184542784X	ISBN-13 : 9781845427849
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