Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: While the literature suggests that matters of contracting and governance in strategic innovation partnerships are interrelated and that governance of partnerships generally occurs with contractual heterogeneity, our understanding about the specific relationships between contracting and the partnership culture that facilitates joint transactions remains to be vague.In this study we clarify how the complexity of contractual agreements between partners in conjunction with the alignment of their innovation objectives and the ambiguity inherent in their mutual contributions to the partnership can be used to predict the culture of the partnership.We find that innovation partnerships result to be one of four types: bureaucratic, market, clan, or adhocracy.Our result emphasizes the central role of contractual complexity as a suitable and relevant concept to capture the nature of inter-organizational innovation partnerships.
Author: Jochen Schweitzer
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Technology Sydney
OpenAlex ID: W2753868651