The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations

• Section I: Introduction


• 1: Steve Cropper, Mark Ebers, Chris Huxham, and Peter Smith Ring: Introducing Inter-organizational Relations


• Section II: Manifestations of Inter-organizational Relations


• 2: Mark H. Lazerson and Gianni Lorenzoni: Transforming Industrial Distrcits: How Leading Firms are Escaping the Manufacturing Cage


• 3: Thomas E. Johnsen, Richard C. Lamming and Christine M. Harland: Inter-organizational Relationships, Chains and Networks: A Supply Perspective


• 4: Tina Dacin, Douglas Reid, and Peter Smith Ring: Alliances and Joint Ventures: The Role of Partner Selection from an Embeddedness Perspective


• 5: Erik-Hans Klijn: Policy and Implementation Networks: Managing Complex Interactions


• 6: Jodi Sandfort and H. Brinton Milward: Collaborative Service Provision in the Public Sector


• 7: Myrna P. Mandell and Robyn Keast: Voluntary and Community Sector Partnerships: Current Inter-organizational Relations and Future Challenges


• 8: Mike Geddes: Inter-organizational Relationships in Local and Regional Development Partnerships


• 9: Candace Jones and Benyamin B. Lichtenstein: Temporary Inter-organizational Projects: How Temporal and Social Embeddedness Enhance Coordination and Manage Uncertainty


• 10: Pamsy P. Hui, Nils O. Fonstad and Cynthia M. Beath: Technology Service Inter-organizational Relationships: An Agenda for Information Technology Service Sourcing Research


• Section III: Theoretical and Disciplinary Perspectives on the Study of Inter-organizational Relations


• 11: Patrick Kenis and Leon Oerlemans: The Social Network Perspective: Understanding the Structure of Cooperation


• 12: Alessandro Lomi, Giacomo Negro, and Fabio Fonti: Evolutionary Perspectives on Inter-organizational Relations

Steve Cropper is Professor of Management at the Institute for Public Policy and Management at Keele University, UK. His research concerns strategy making, decision support and inter-agency collaborative working in health and public services, working closely with policy makers and practitioners. He is inaugural chair of an advisory committee for the National Health Service's 'Research for Patient Benefit' programme. Current research projects are tracing the formation and development, over time, of partnerships and networks in community and health care settings using ethnographic, process evaluation and action research. He is co-editor of three other books and author of a series of papers on collaborative inter-organizational processes. He is a steering group member and former convenor of the Special Interest Group on Inter-Organizational Relations of the British Academy of Management.

Mark Ebers is Professor of Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, at Cologne University, Germany, since 2004. He has been International Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM, UK) in 2006, visiting professor at Tilburg University (2004), Harvard Business School (2002), Harvard University (1997), and Bocconi University (1996). In 1989/90 he was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. He has edited The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks (OUP, 1997), co-edited a Special Issues of International Studies of Management & Organization on industry networks (vol. 27, no. 4, 1997-98), and has published a number of articles on inter-organizational relations. He is co-founder and co-organizer of the EGOS Standing Working Group on Business Networks, and has convened sub-themes on inter-organizational relations at five EGOS colloquia.

Chris Huxham is Professor of Management at the University of Strathclyde Business School, a Senior Fellow of the ESRC /EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research, and Chair of the

"The Handbook is a wide ranging and ambitious collection of original essays written by contemporary scholars.... It calls for a dialogue between different perspectives in the field of IOR. The editors integrative efforts have been crowned with success.... Researchers at various career stages will be delighted by the rich spectrum of theoretical perspectives, research approaches and empirical contexts"--Work, Employment & Society

The Handbook is a wide ranging and ambitious collection of original essays written by contemporary scholars.... It calls for a dialogue between different perspectives in the field of IOR. The editors integrative efforts have been crowned with success.... Researchers at various career stages will be delighted by the rich spectrum of theoretical perspectives, research approaches and empirical contexts. Work, Employment & Society