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Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views

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(2019), "Prelims", Sydow, J. and Berends, H. (Ed.) Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 64), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000064002

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations Volume 64

Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views

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Jörg Sydow

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Hans Berends

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Contents

Lists of Figures and Tables vii
About the Contributors ix
Introduction: Process Views on Inter-organizational Collaborations
Hans Berends and Jörg Sydow
1
Part I Relational Dynamics in Inter-organizational Collaboration
Chapter 1 Relational Bonds Underlying Cooperative Inter-organizational Relations in Different Societal Contexts
Peter Smith Ring and Andrew H. Van de Ven
13
Chapter 2 Building Adaptive Capacity in Project Network Organizations: Project Contexts, Network Ties, and Relational Practices
Stephan Manning
39
Chapter 3 The Dynamics of Inter-organizational Relations in Contemporary Manufacturing: Nested Negotiations in Value Networks
Harry Sminia, Anup Nair, Aylin Ates, Steve Paton and Marisa Smith
69
Chapter 4 Technological Embeddedness of Inter-organizational Collaboration Processes
Katharina Cepa and Henri Schildt
91
Part II Organizational Dynamics Forming and Dissolving Collaboration
Chapter 5 Insider Activists Pursuing an Agenda for Change: Selling the Need for Collaboration
Kristina Lauche
119
Chapter 6 Phased Acquisitions for Disruptive Innovation: Toward a Micro-level Governance Perspective
Dries Faems and Anoop Madhok
139
Chapter 7 Entrepreneurs or Employees? The Emergence of “Disciplining Entrepreneurialism” in Subsidiary Organizations at CyberAgent
Rick Delbridge, Takahiro Endo and Jonathan Morris
163
Chapter 8 Collaborative Uncoupling: How to Break Up and Stay Together
Rene Wiedner and Shaz Ansari
185
Part IIIDynamic Collaboration Beyond Organizations
Chapter 9 “Opening Innovation” Across Layers of Practices: Developing an Integrative View of the Emergence of Digital Health
Karl-Emanuel Dionne and Paul Carlile
213
Chapter 10 How Organizations Manage Crowds: Define, Broadcast, Attract, and Select
Linus Dahlander, Lars Bo Jeppesen and Henning Piezunka
239
Chapter 11 Crowd-open and Crowd-based Collaborations: Facilitating the Emergence of Organization Design
Luca Giustiniano, Terri L. Griffith and Ann Majchrzak
271
Chapter 12 Collaborative Innovation Online: Entanglements of the Making of Content, Skills, and Community on a Songwriting Platform
Benjamin Schiemer, Elke Schüßler and Gernot Grabher
293
Index 317

Lists of Figures and Tables

Figures

Fig. 1.1 Relational Bonds and Contexts in Which They May Be Employed. 16
Fig. 1.2 Process Framework of the Development of Cooperative IORs. 18
Fig. 2.1 Abstract Model of Project Network Organization (Short: Project Network). 42
Fig. 2.2 Inter-context Connectivity and Adaptive Capacity of PNOs. 58
Fig. 2.3 Relationship between Project Variety and Inter-context Connectivity. 60
Fig. 3.1 Three Paradoxes in Contemporary Manufacturing. 73
Fig. 3.2 The Network of Gas Generators in Mass Spectrometers. 77
Fig. 3.3 The GenMan–Alpha Relationship Network. 78
Fig. 3.4 The GenMan–Bravo Relationship Network. 78
Fig. 6.1 Overview Data Structure. 144
Fig. 6.2 Case-specific Model of Phased Acquisition. 145
Fig. 6.3 Process Model of Governance Dynamics in Phased Acquisitions. 155
Fig. 9.1 Integrating the Literatures for Opening Innovation. 218
Fig. 9.2 Conceptualizing the Layers of Opening Innovation in Digital Health. 228
Fig. 9.3 Conceptualizing the Layering of Practices When Opening Innovation. 229
Fig. 10.1 Illustrating the Stages and the Interdependencies. 241
Fig. 11.1 Examples of Organizations Leveraging Crowds. 275
Fig. 12.1 In Sync – Complementary Reinforcements among Processes at FAWM. 310
Fig. 12.2 Out of Sync – Interferences among Processes at FAWM. 311

Tables

Table 1.1 Commitments Associated with Relational Bonds. 29
Table 5.1 Overview of Cases. 127
Table 5.2 Issue-selling Strategies Identified in Cases. 128
Table 7.1 Subsidiary Establishment and Closure since 2010. 172
Table 7.2 Comparison of Disciplining Entrepreneurialism with Other Alternatives. 179
Table 8.1 Comparing Organizational Restructuring Challenges. 189
Table 10.1 Applying the Framework for Making Decisions to (Well-known) Cases of Crowdsourcing. 258
Table 10.A1 Overview of the Stages and Key Decisions. 266
Table 11.1 Organization Design Facilitators in Crowd-open and Crowd-based Settings. 284
Table 12.1 Data Collection from February 2017 to February 2018. 301
Table 12.2 Development of Membership FAWM (2004–2018, Userstatistics FAWM). 306
Table 12.3 FAWM Activities of the First Author in 2018. 307

About the Contributors

Dr Shaz Ansari is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He serves on Editorial Boards of AMJ, AMR, Organization Science, JOM, JMS, and Organization Studies. He has published in AMJ, AMR, SMJ, Organization Science, JMS, Research Policy, ICC, JBE, Strategic Organization, and Organization Studies.

Dr Aylin Ates is an Associate Professor in Strategy at the University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, and the Programme Director of MSc Project Management and Innovation. She has published extensively in the area of strategic management in small and medium enterprises, among others in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, European Management Journal, and International Journal of Production Research.

Dr Hans Berends is a Professor of Innovation and Organization at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His current research interests concern interorganizational collaboration and digital innovation, and he investigates these phenomena using a process research approach. He has published in leading journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Strategic Organization.

Dr Paul Carlile is an Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He published widely on topics of innovation, managing knowledge across boundaries and digital disruption in journals, such as Organization Science, Management Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Katharina Cepa is a Lecturer of Digital Strategy at Lancaster University Management School. Her research explores how the use of digital real-time data technologies in (inter-)organizational processes affects the management and strategy of organizations.

Dr Linus Dahlander is an Associate Professor and the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation at ESMT Berlin. He is interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, communities, and crowdsourcing.

Dr Rick Delbridge is a Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff Business School. He is Co-editor of JMSSays and a former Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review and Organization. He is the Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, British Academy of Management, and Learned Society of Wales.

Dr Karl-Emanuel Dionne is a Postdoctoral Researcher of Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. His work focuses on topics of new forms of organizing for innovation, interdisciplinary innovation, open innovation events, and field emergence at the intersection of different sectors.

Dr Takahiro Endo is an Associate Professor of Organizational Analysis at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. His research interest lies in long-term change and continuity of management practice, such as “Japanese Management”.

Dr Dries Faems holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Transformation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany. He is also a Visiting Professor at the LUISS Business School in Rome. His current research focuses on collaboration for innovation and technological transformation.

Dr Luca Giustiniano is a Professor of Organization Studies at Department of Business and Management at LUISS University, where he is also the Director of the Centre for research in Leadership, Innovation and Organization. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Management Studies and Review of Managerial Science.

Dr Gernot Grabher is a Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at HafenCity University Hamburg. He was an Editor of Economic Geography, an Editor of the RSA Regions and Cities book series, and also a Member of the editorial boards of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, European Urban and Regional Studies, Industry and Innovation, and Social Sciences.

Dr Terri L. Griffith is a Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. She studies how technologies, practices, and human capabilities can be woven together to achieve performance. Her most recent research considers the bottom-up integration of artificial intelligence into work.

Dr Lars Bo Jeppesen is a Professor of Innovation Management at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on innovation in the digital economy. His work has been published in a variety of management journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy.

Dr Kristina Lauche is the Chair of Organizational Development and Design at Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, The Netherlands. Her research draws on practice approaches to understand how people address complex problems that require interorganizational collaboration and pursue organizational or field-level change. She has investigated such processes in the context of new product development, sustainability, healthcare, and creative industries. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and MIS Quarterly.

Dr Anoop Madhok is a Professor of Strategy and the Distinguished Scotiabank Professor in International Business and Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. His more recent research focused on the various aspects of collaboration, and his current research focuses on the organization and governance of platform-based businesses.

Dr Ann Majchrzak is an Associate of USC Chaired Professor of Business Administration at the Marshall School of Business. She does research on any interesting intersection of digital innovation and organizational systems. She is publishing a new book: How Open Crowds Can Collaboratively Solve Big Societal and Business Problems.

Dr Stephan Manning is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at University of Sussex, UK. His research covers topics such as sustainability standards, social entrepreneurship, project-based organizing, and global services sourcing. He has published in journals such as SMJ, JMS, JIBS, Research Policy, Organization Studies, and Human Relations. He is Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review.

Dr Jonathan Morris is a Professor of Organizational Analysis and an Associate Dean for Research at Cardiff University’s Business School.

Dr Anup Karath Nair is a Lecturer in Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He holds a PhD in Strategy and Organization from the Strathclyde Business School. His research investigates the challenges associated with realizing strategy and innovation within engineering and technology-driven businesses.

Dr Steve Paton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Following a 20-year career in the aerospace industry, he transferred to academia. He currently researches in operations and project management, and is particularly interested in the management of work within project-based networked environments.

Dr Henning Piezunka is an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He does research on crowdsourcing, collaboration, and competition. He is an Editorial Board Member at the Academy of Management Review. He has a PhD from the Stanford University.

Dr Peter Smith Ring is a Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management with the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is or was an Editorial Board Member of Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, International Journal of Business Strategic Alliances, Nonprofit Management Review Journal, and Journal of Management Studies.

Benjamin Schiemer, MSc, is a Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz. His research interests cover organizational anthropology, ethnography, science and technology studies, and processual studies of collaborative creativity in music.

Dr Henri Schildt is a Professor of Strategy at Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, where he heads the Department of Management Studies. His research spans strategy, organization theory, and entrepreneurship. His current research projects examine the organizational creation of social value and how digital data influences organizing.

Dr Elke Schüßler is a Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Her research interests revolve around organization and management theories, work and employment relations, and creativity and innovation. She currently examines labor standards in global supply chains and new forms of digital organizing.

Dr Harry Sminia is a Professor in Strategic Management at Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow. His research interests are in the area of processes of strategy formation, strategic change, and competitive positioning. He is also interested in process research methods and methodology.

Dr Marisa Smith is a Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation at Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She is published in a range of journals on topics related to innovation and operations management. She employs an engaged scholarship approach to her research.

Dr Jörg Sydow is a Professor of Management at the School of Business & Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. He was a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research and an Editorial Board Member of Organization Science, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Management Studies. Currently, he is a Senior Editor of Organization Studies.

Dr Andrew H. Van de Ven is a Professor Emeritus in the Carlson School of the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972. He conducts research and writes on managing organizational innovation, change, design and behavior, and engaged scholarship research methods. He was President of the Academy of Management (2000–2001), and was Founding Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries (2013–1017).

Dr Rene Wiedner is an Associate Professor and a member of the Process, Practice and Institutions (PPI) Research Programme at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. His research focuses on change, collaboration, and innovation in healthcare and the creative industries. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Prelims
Introduction: Process Views on Inter-organizational Collaborations
Part I: Relational Dynamics in Inter-organizational Collaboration
Chapter 1: Relational Bonds Underlying Cooperative Inter-organizational Relations in Different Societal Contexts
Chapter 2: Building Adaptive Capacity in Project Network Organizations: Project Contexts, Network Ties, and Relational Practices
Chapter 3: The Dynamics of Inter-organizational Relations in Contemporary Manufacturing: Nested Negotiations in Value Networks
Chapter 4: Technological Embeddedness of Inter-organizational Collaboration Processes
Part II: Organizational Dynamics Forming and Dissolving Collaboration
Chapter 5: Insider activists pursuing an agenda for change: Selling the need for collaboration
Chapter 6: Phased Acquisitions for Disruptive Innovation: Toward a Micro-Level Governance Perspective
Chapter 7: Entrepreneurs or Employees? The Emergence of “Disciplining Entrepreneurialism” in Subsidiary Organizations at Cyberagent
Chapter 8: Collaborative Uncoupling: How to Break Up and Stay Together
Part III: Dynamic Collaboration Beyond Organizations
Chapter 9: “Opening Innovation” Across Layers of Practices: Developing an Integrative View of the Emergence of Digital Health
Chapter 10: How Organizations Manage Crowds: Define, Broadcast, Attract, and Select
Chapter 11: Crowd-Open and Crowd-Based Collaborations: Facilitating the Emergence of Organization Design
Chapter 12: Collaborative Innovation Online: Entanglements of the Making of Content, Skills, and Community on a Songwriting Platform
Index