期刊
ORGANIZATION STUDIES
卷 42, 期 1, 页码 61-83出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0170840619868268
关键词
hybrid orchestration; innovation; multi-stakeholder network; orchestration practices
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资金
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
- European Research Council [695256]
- European Research Council (ERC) [695256] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
The research found that network orchestrators use different practices such as connecting, facilitating, and governing to support the development of innovation trajectories. Meanwhile, orchestrators adopt a hybrid orchestration mode when dealing with emergent network challenges, switching between dominating and consensus-based approaches to address the complexity of diverse stakeholders.
The prominence of inter-organizational networks for innovation raises questions about how to support collaboration between multiple, diverse stakeholders. We focus on network orchestration and examine the practices that support orchestrators in dealing with the challenges brought by the number and diversity of stakeholders. Using qualitative, longitudinal data from an innovation network of 57 stakeholders, we identify three types of orchestration practices - connecting, facilitating and governing - and observe how they underlie innovation trajectories over time, each supporting the achievement of distinct network outcomes. Within and across trajectories, we observe how orchestrators rely on hybrid orchestration: they switch between dominating and consensus-based orchestration modes, in response to emergent network challenges. By switching between modes, orchestrators address the complexities of simultaneously and temporally dealing with a large number and diversity of stakeholders. With these findings, we present a toolbox of practices for network orchestrators to address distinct challenges in different types of networks and underscore that network research should consider the plurality of networks, rather than treat them as universalistic. Orchestrators play a key role in managing this plurality: they act as environmental scanners who address emergent network challenges through hybrid orchestration. This realization opens new avenues for network research, for example, relating to the skills and capabilities of orchestrators.
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