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Packing more punch? Developing the field of inter-organisational relations

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  • Steve Cropper
  • Mark Ebers
  • Chris Huxham
  • Peter Smith Ring

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Since Evan's (1965) call for a theory of inter-organisational relations (IOR), research into IOR has proliferated as inter-organisational practice has become more commonplace. We argue that knowledge about IOR has developed in fragmented and highly differentiated ways, despite periodic attempts to review knowledge and set an agenda for future research. Building on Culpan's (2009) prospectus for research into strategic business alliances in this journal, we argue for a more systematic, concerted programme of consolidation and abstraction of knowledge as a specific accumulation dynamic. We suggest two ways of cutting IOR's fragmentary web of knowledge. The first orders knowledge by researchers' primary substantive interests; the second derives conceptual foci from our definition of IOR. We outline three levels of work to link existing IOR knowledge. We see these as cumulative and increasingly strong, and, together, as forming the basis for consolidation of knowledge in an IOR vademecum.

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  • Steve Cropper & Mark Ebers & Chris Huxham & Peter Smith Ring, 2011. "Packing more punch? Developing the field of inter-organisational relations," International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3), pages 153-170.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijhrcs:v:2:y:2011:i:3:p:153-170
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    1. Pierre Garaudel, 2020. "Exploring meta-organizations’ diversity and agency: A meta-organizational perspective on global union federations," Post-Print halshs-02474817, HAL.
    2. Garaudel, Pierre, 2020. "Exploring meta-organizations’ diversity and agency: A meta-organizational perspective on global union federations," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 36(1).
    3. Alexandrine Lapoutte, 2021. "Résilience d'une méta‐organisation : Le cas d'un commun de l'alimentation," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 92(1), pages 79-100, March.

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