Interorganizational relationship management: managing across hierachies, markets and networks

• Main Author: Muleya, Cedrick
• Other Authors: Isaacs, Eslyn
• Language: en
• Published: University of the Western Cape 2013
• Subjects: Corporate culture; Industries; Social aspects; Organizational sociology; Organizational effectiveness
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2071

Magister Commercii - MCom === This study focused on understanding inter-organizational relationships (IOR) of a dynamic nature. A dynamic process that has repetitive sequences of negotiation, commitment, and execution stages is central to inter-organizational relationships. The dynamic process is a tool that is used by management through collaboration, co-operation, and coordination to engender formation, governance, and performance of inter-organizational relationships. This report looked into how the resource-dependency theory gives insight into the formation of an inter-organizational relationships and how the transaction-cost theory contributes to the understanding ofinter-organizational relationships governance. === South Africa