Strategic alliances in the form of interorganizational networks continue to receive attention in both service and manufacturing industries as a potential form of competitive advantage. Health care organizations, in particular, have embraced partnerships and strategic alliances with much intensity, adopting the interorganizational network as the new business model for the health care industry. Y...

Abstract This article develops the concept of “interorganizational pathologies” as an extension Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore's work on bureaucratic pathologies. Adopting open system perspective, I argue that dysfunctional interactions may arise between international organizations (IOs) even when their cooperation is fairly institutionalized. To advance this line reasoning, examine In...

With increasing globalization and loosely-coupled business relations between different companies, the importance of information exchange standards is increasing. GS1’s Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) is currently one of the main standards proposed for interorganizational data exchange for trace and track purposes in the supply chain. However, some parts of the EPCIS framewo...

This article examines public administrators’ perceptions of the effects of nonprofit networks on local affordable housing decisions. It builds on a larger body of research concerning the affordable housing activities of communitybased organizations (CBOs). This analysis is based on a national survey of public administrators responsible for affordable housing programs in U.S. cities with populat...

approach have increased as well This article focuses on several accomplishments and unresolved problems of the network approach In the first section. I illustrate the value of the network model in several substantive areas. focusing on studies of centrahty and power, network subgroups, and interorganizational relations I then discuss three issues over which the approach has provoked controversy...

The paper introduces a heuristic for the identification of coordination needs in interorganizational arrangements. Based on a classification of interorganizational arrangements coordination needs in dynamic organizational forms are identified. The classification criteria are used to specify corresponding coordination tasks. Elaborating on the concept of coordination roles, tasks are assigned to...

In an attempt to promote service delivery integration and improve interorganizational collaboration, many recent human service delivery initiatives have included the development of interorganizational alliances such as coalitions and coordinating councils. Despite their popularity, little is known about how these alliances influence interorganizational collaboration, specifically the extent to ...

Different organizations have different backgrounds of culture and knowledge which might lead to potential conflicts in the modern interorganizational workflow. Another fact in this research area is that each organization wants to keep some parts of its local workflow secret to other organizations. Considering the above features, this thesis proposes an approach of modeling the selfcentered inte...

Interorganizational workflows are a major step in automating B2B electronic commerce and to support collaborations of organizations on the technical level. Process views are an important conceptual modelling approach for interorganizational workflows as they allow interaction and communication while internal and private parts of the process can be hidden. However, it essential to guarantee that...