Session Number
04
Description
The paper deals with the following questions:
- Why is interorganizational coordination a problem?
- What is meant by "interorganizational coordination"? What is its relationship to competition, collusion and coercion?
- What are the potential barriers to interorganizational coordination?
To deal with these factors we will have to look first at the basic action orientations of individual organizations like fullfilment of program me requirements, the maintenance of a clear domain of high sodal importance, the maintenance of orderly, reliable patterns of resource flow and the commitment to a technological-ideological paradigm.
Secondly we have to deal with questions of compatibility between organizations. What is the amount of domain consenius, what the felt need for coordination, how do organizations evaluate each other, what strategies do organizations develop to impede or facilitate coordination.
- What are arguments for tight coupling between organizations and what are arguments for loose coupling?
- How can we design in networks which can deal effectively with problems of effective interorganizational coordination.
Three models will be discussed:
- the expert model
- the organizational development model and
- the action mode
The Organisation of Co-operation
The paper deals with the following questions:
- Why is interorganizational coordination a problem?
- What is meant by "interorganizational coordination"? What is its relationship to competition, collusion and coercion?
- What are the potential barriers to interorganizational coordination?
To deal with these factors we will have to look first at the basic action orientations of individual organizations like fullfilment of program me requirements, the maintenance of a clear domain of high sodal importance, the maintenance of orderly, reliable patterns of resource flow and the commitment to a technological-ideological paradigm.
Secondly we have to deal with questions of compatibility between organizations. What is the amount of domain consenius, what the felt need for coordination, how do organizations evaluate each other, what strategies do organizations develop to impede or facilitate coordination.
- What are arguments for tight coupling between organizations and what are arguments for loose coupling?
- How can we design in networks which can deal effectively with problems of effective interorganizational coordination.
Three models will be discussed:
- the expert model
- the organizational development model and
- the action mode