Metaorganizational Designs : Managing Inter-Organizational Initiatives
Journal
Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation
ISSN
0722-7485
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2014-10-04
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
Metaorganizations, as emerging for instance in the electromobility sector, are sophisticated organizational designs, developed to manage extremely complex tasks. Metaorganizations are, however, fragile architectures. If the diversity of interests cannot be resolved, and if the collaboration cannot be stabilized on a lasting basis, leading to the loss of important actors, then the whole organizational architecture is at risk to collapse. At the same time, Metaorganizations may offer possibilities to its members lying beyond what can be achieved by individual actors - a central factor for their increasing empirical occurrence. Its main attributes are the emergence of solidifying goals, the permeability of its organizational boundaries, a high intensity for coordination and bottom-up integration, the use of resources without their ownership, as well as incentives between the poles of individual and collective welfare.
Language
German
Keywords
Inter-Organizational Initiatives
Metaorganization
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Schaeffer-Poeschel
Publisher place
Stuttgart
Volume
2014
Number
5
Start page
333
End page
339
Pages
7
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
232382