Discovering the Rules: Folk Knowledge for Improving GM Partnerships
| Autor: | Tracy L. Meerwarth, Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Elizabeth K. Briody |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
business.industry Population General Social Sciences Context (language use) Public relations Management Interview data Organizational form General motors Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology General partnership Economic anthropology Sociology Social science research education business |
| Zdroj: | Human Organization. 64:286-302 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3525 0018-7259 |
| DOI: | 10.17730/humo.64.3.d2mlqmpdrqda9am2 |
| Popis: | Partnership collaboration, a critical emerging strategy for General Motors (GM) and for organizations in general, is a way to combine resources and complementary expertise to create new knowledge, products, or services. Since partnerships are a relatively new organizational form, our team was commissioned by the head of GM Research and Development (GM R&D) to understand how private-sector research partnerships functioned and how we might offer suggestions for improving their effectiveness. Participants and organizations engaged in partnerships represent a vast population that stands to benefit from social science research. Understanding partnerships involves examining aspects of the culture of the partnering organizations, as well as the historical context of the partnership, partnership structure and dynamics, activities undertaken, and partnering outcomes. Through our analysis of interview data from the Alcan-GM and BP-GM partnerships, we discovered the concept of partnership rules – prescriptions offer... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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