This booklet explores the idea that firms are considerably motivated via their inter-organizational relationships; additionally, those relationships may well generate very important externalities, either optimistic and unfavorable, impacting the surroundings at a number of degrees. the appearance of the web period, however, has ended in disruptive alterations in conventional inter-organizational networks, and a few thoroughly new inter-organizational settings at the moment are arising.

In its first half the e-book reports the main as a rule brought up theories explaining inter-organizational phenomena: transaction charges economics, business enterprise idea, source dependence conception, video game theories, collaborative networks concept, institutional theories, organizational ecology, resource-based / relational-based view of the enterprise, and information community / social community theories. partly II it completely stories the literature on a few key IT-enabled inter-organizational structures presently at the upward thrust, comparable to digital businesses, e-intermediators and e-marketplaces.

Lastly, half III offers the case of the Yoox crew, a number one company delivering e-commerce prone for type and layout items. A framework is proposed for systematically linking the several attainable forms of inter-organizational relationships to express, compatible units of theories. the variety of attainable inter-organizational relationships is defined at the foundation of 3 pairs of opposites: conformism-breach, exploitation-exploration, and cooperation-competition. This leads to a version that makes it attainable to mix various theories so as to learn the results of inter-organizational ambidexterity and dynamism on performance.