"Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of collaborative relationships between organizations. Much attention has been given to how organizations ‘expand the pie’ of benefits between them; however, there is little that addresses the ensuing issue – how organizations divide t...
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| description | Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of collaborative
relationships between organizations. Much attention has been given to how organizations
‘expand the pie’ of benefits between them; however, there is little that addresses the ensuing
issue – how organizations divide the expanded pie. This research examines the relational impact
of pie sharing in complex collaboration contexts marked by uncertainty in resources and outputs,
information asymmetries, intangible aspects, and noncomparable factors and processes. A
conceptual framework is developed that examines how the use of equity and equality sharing
principles in conjunction with various resource and organizational conditions can be used to
systematically impact relational outcomes. Survey results of 300 R&D managers, scientists, and
engineers indicate that sharing principles can have a positive or negative effect on the
relationship depending on the type of sharing principle used, and the characteristics of the
resources and organizations. In particular, sharing processes should be responsive to the goals of
the collaboration. The results underscore the strategic nature of the sharing phenomenon as well
as the importance of relational concerns in complex and uncertain interorganizational settings. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/844972019-04-09T17:52:53Z "Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts Jap, Sandy D. collaboration pie sharing equity equality Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of collaborative relationships between organizations. Much attention has been given to how organizations ‘expand the pie’ of benefits between them; however, there is little that addresses the ensuing issue – how organizations divide the expanded pie. This research examines the relational impact of pie sharing in complex collaboration contexts marked by uncertainty in resources and outputs, information asymmetries, intangible aspects, and noncomparable factors and processes. A conceptual framework is developed that examines how the use of equity and equality sharing principles in conjunction with various resource and organizational conditions can be used to systematically impact relational outcomes. Survey results of 300 R&D managers, scientists, and engineers indicate that sharing principles can have a positive or negative effect on the relationship depending on the type of sharing principle used, and the characteristics of the resources and organizations. In particular, sharing processes should be responsive to the goals of the collaboration. The results underscore the strategic nature of the sharing phenomenon as well as the importance of relational concerns in complex and uncertain interorganizational settings. International Center for Research on the Management of Technology, Lean Aerospace Initiative, and Center for Innovation in Product Development 2014-01-24T17:13:00Z 2014-01-24T17:13:00Z 2000-01 Article Presentation http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84497 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | collaboration pie sharing equity equality Jap, Sandy D. "Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts |
| title | "Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts |
| title_full | "Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts |
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| title_full_unstemmed | "Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts |
| title_short | "Pie-Sharing" in Complex Collaboration Contexts |
| title_sort | pie sharing in complex collaboration contexts |
| topic | collaboration pie sharing equity equality |
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