Partnering is often claimed to represent a solution small local government organizations (SLGOs) can resort to in order to manage innovation. However, especially when private partners are involved, resources and specialized competencies need to be allocated on the management of the partnership in order to guarantee that it will deliver a public value. SLGOs often lack such resources and this ca...

New technological innovations have made it possible for new intermediaries to create value in business processes that involve the procurement of manufacturing and services supplies. Associated with these innovations is the emergence of business-to-business (B2B) electronic markets. These act as digital intermediaries that aim to reduce the transaction costs and mitigate the risks inherent in pr...

Exploring the potential transition from strategic technology partnering to mergers and acquisitions This paper studies a number of research topics derived from the basic question: do inter-firm partnerships with different intermediary modes of company organization change over time as one of the companies that were previously cooperating becomes integrated by its partner? As such this contributi...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. Leadership is originally the source of the beliefs and values which forms shared assumptions of organisational culture. This paper builds on the leadership li...

One of the strategic goals for IEEE Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Society is to be leading in ITS technical activities (TAs). This vision can achieved by involving all members, engaging industry and other constituents, partnering with units outside professional associations ITS-related fields. As a part Society’s ongoing long-range planning exercises 2020, TA Committee (TAC) has devel...

In fact, there is a relatively broad spectrum of relationship contracting models including various forms of partnering and different styles of alliances. Unfortunately the terms partnering and alliancing are often used interchangeably when they really describe procurement approaches which are quite different, particularly in the manner in which they address the distribution of both risk and rew...