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A multi‐theoretical perspective on power in managing interorganizational relationships
Vera Belaya,Jon Henrich Hanf +1 more
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In this article, the authors examine power from a multi-theoretical perspective by comparing and analyzing different views and definitions of power in order to use the findings for further studying this construct as a key element for managerial purposes in the interorganizational context.Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine power from a multi‐theoretical perspective by comparing and analyzing different views and definitions of power in order to use the findings for further studying this construct as a key element for managerial purposes in the interorganizational context.Design/methodology/approach – An overview of the literature is conducted examining the power from sociological, psychological and managerial perspectives specifying views on power, its sources and consequences of its use offered by selected theories.Findings – This paper presents the opinion that the definitions of power by different theories resemble each other and the main differentiations in conceptualizations of power stem mostly from the differences in capturing sources and consequences of power. Power generally refers to the ability, capacity or potential to get others do something, to command, to influence, to determine or to control the behaviors, intentions, decisions or actions of others in the purs...read more
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Understanding capacity through the processes and outcomes of interorganizational relationships in nonprofit community sport organizations
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Linking Workplace Bullying and Work Engagement: The Mediating Role of Psychological Contract Violation:
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Managing Russian agri-food supply chain networks with power
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Radical settlements to conflict: Conflict management and its implications for institutional change
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Knowledge co-production in academic-practitioner research collaboration: An expanded perspective on power
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Exchange and Power in Social Life
TL;DR: In a seminal work as discussed by the authors, Peter M. Blau used concepts of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power to examine social life and to derive the more complex processes in social structure from the simpler ones.
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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective
TL;DR: The External Control of Organizations as discussed by the authors explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints, and it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable.
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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective.
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Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review agency theory, its contributions to organization theory, and the extant empirical work and develop testable propositions and conclude that agency theory offers unique insight into information systems, outcome uncertainty, incentives, and risk.