Creating Conditions for Promising Collaboration: Alliances, Networks, Chains, Strategic Partnerships

✍ Scribed by Edwin Kaats, Wilfrid Opheij (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 102
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Business : SpringerBriefs in Organisational Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This publication focuses on the conditions for promising collaboration. Collaboration is becoming a dominant instrument in today's economy and society and manifests itself in many shapes and forms. It is a challenging instrument which still isn't very well understood and poses the business community in front of a number of challenging dilemma's. We position collaboration as a multidisciplinary phenomenon and - based on years of research and as reflective practitioners - offer a comprehensive model for analyzing and designing collaborative processes that is both scientifically rooted and applicable in practice. A better understanding of collaborative processes will enhance the success of alliances, networks, chains and strategic partnerships. In addition to this we look to the future of organizing from a collaborative perspective and address the challenges ahead.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Collaboration: A Fundamental Capability in Society and Organizations....Pages 7-35
Essential Conditions for Promising Collaboration....Pages 37-66
Future Perspectives on Collaboration....Pages 67-87
Back Matter....Pages 89-98

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Industrial Organization