How organizations act together: interorganizational coordination in theory and practice/

Main Author: Alexander, Ernest R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Australia ; Austria: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1995
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. What and Why: Definitions and Premises
  • Ch. 2. Where and How: Contexts, Relationships and Tools
  • Ch. 3. The Mechanics of Coordination: IOC Structures
  • Ch. 4. Coordination Without Hierarchy: Informal Coordination Links and Networks
  • Ch. 5. Formal Coordination: Micro-Structures in Action
  • Ch. 6. Coordinating Organizations: Organizations as IOC Structures
  • Ch. 7. Mutual Organizations: IOC in Interorganizational Networks
  • Ch. 8. From Markets to Hierarchies: Meso-Structures for IOC
  • Ch. 9. Integrating What We Know
  • Ch. 10. The Architecture of Institutional Design: IOC Structures, Contexts and Fit
  • Appendix: Interorganizational Networks or Sets.