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The Dynamics of Inter-organizational Relations in Contemporary Manufacturing: Nested Negotiations in Value Networks

Harry Sminia
Anup Nair
Aylin Ates
Steve Paton
Marisa Smith

Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views

ISBN: 978-1-78756-592-0, eISBN: 978-1-78756-591-3

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 4 October 2019

Abstract

This chapter addresses the dynamics in inter-organizational relations. The authors probe the value networks so prevalent within contemporary ­manufacturing to put forward that their basic cooperation/competition duality manifests itself in practical terms as capability, appropriation, and governance paradoxes. The authors conducted a longitudinal ethnographic study aimed at capturing the process by which inter-organizational collabor­ation in ­manufacturing value networks is enacted. Our study finds that inter-organizational relations are “nested” in that a relationship plays out over an interpersonal network where the inter-organizational relationships are a framework for action, while simultaneously interpersonal interactions affect how the inter-organizational relationships take shape and evolve. Furthermore, we found that inter-organizational dynamics is essentially a stratified process. Solving particular and concrete problems at the surface level, with regard to specific collaboration issues between organizations, simultaneously shapes truces with regard to the underlying capability, appropriation, and governance paradoxes.

Keywords

  • Inter-organizational dynamics
  • Interpersonal relations
  • High value manufacturing
  • Paradox
  • Value network
  • Networks

Citation

Sminia, H., Nair, A., Ates, A., Paton, S. and Smith, M. (2019), "The Dynamics of Inter-organizational Relations in Contemporary Manufacturing: Nested Negotiations in Value Networks", Sydow, J. and Berends, H. (Ed.) Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 64), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000064006

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