1. Interrelations Between Interorganizational And Interorganizational Networks
- Author
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Kleinaltenkamp, M and Weigt, M
- Abstract
In the recent past more and more attention has been dedicated to the development of a network approach. Unfortunately, in many cases efforts undertaken so far have chosen a static point of view neglecting the time-factor involved; or, if they paid attention to it, they were comparative-static at best. As a consequence, evolution of networks as a period-of-time-based phenomenon has not been explored as thoroughly as structures and conditions prevailing at a certain point of time. Furthermore, scholars so far have treated both strands of networks interorganizational and intraorganizational - separately, thus, more or less neglecting the interrelations existing between them. But it is exactly these interrelations that drive the dynamics of network phenomena. This article taking a truly dynamic perspective puts the emergence and evolution of networks into the context of the interrelations between intraorganizational and interorganizational networks. To achieve that, it identifies five effects which may help to explain the rise, prevalence and stabilization, as well as the demise of bilateral relationships and even of whole network-structures.
- Published
- 1997