Abstract

GRUESO HINESTROZA, Merlín Patricia. Inter-organizational networks effectiveness: An exploratory research. suma neg. [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.13, pp.2-7. ISSN 2215-910X.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sumneg.2015.04.001.

Inter-organizational networks represent a KIND of business cooperation and constitute a strategy to obtain competitive advantages. In this context, it has shown that effectiveness is a problematic concept. The present article seeks to contribute to the research about the effectiveness of inter-organizational networks and their explanatory factors. Based on the above, a study was performed with 45 managers of companies that make up a tourism network in Colombia, and four dimensions were measured: external resources, internal resources, intermediate results, and effectiveness, both at the network level and at organization level. The results indicate that external and internal resources of inter-organizational networks significantly predict intermediate results, as well as network effectiveness, although in a different way. In the conclusions the practical implications of the results are discussed.

Keywords : Efectiveness; inter-organizational networks; inter-organizational trust.

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