Why should we collaborate? Exploring partners’ interactions in the psychosocial spaces of an inter-organisational collaboration
| Autor: | Isidora Kourti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Knowledge management
business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Identity (social science) Space (commercial competition) Independent action Identity development 0502 economics and business Qualitative longitudinal 050211 marketing Narrative Sociology business Social psychology Psychosocial 050203 business & management Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Management. 33:93-101 |
| ISSN: | 0956-5221 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scaman.2017.03.002 |
| Popis: | The study explores the interplay between collaborative and independent action in inter-organisational collaborations (IOCs). Towards this aim, the research suggests the use of psychosocial spaces as an innovative perspective that allows exploring how collaborative and non-collaborative actions unfold, as partners (re)identify themselves in relation to the changing needs of the collaboration. Following a qualitative longitudinal study, the paper contributes the concept of psychosocial space as a distinctive approach to examine IOCs. In this way, the study offers an alternative way to perceive IOCs as interactive spaces characterised and transformed by the collaborative and independent activity embedded within them. It also proposes that collaborative and independent actions emerge in IOCs through identity development processes. Finally, the research suggests that identity interactions in IOCs are not a burden in need to be resolved for the achievement of a common collaborative identity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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