Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Journal of Inter-Organizational Relationships

For a Special Issue on
The Governance of New Interorganizational Relationships: Coordination, Collaboration, and Control

BACKGROUND
Interorganizational governance encompasses a wide variety of issues around the initiation, maintenance, and termination of relationships between exchange parties ). As such, it is critical for the effective functioning of interorganizational relationships. As interorganizational relationships continue to evolve and new business models emerge, organization forms have become more complex and networked. Consequently, the early research focus on relationships between dyads of buyers and sellers now also needs to account for the alignment of intricate supply chains and complex networked interorganizational forms.

Indeed, developments such as the increasing rate of changes in technology, the growing prominence of digital with its implications for the entire value chain, the availability of large amounts of data, the challenges and disruptions of exogenous shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the associated focus on remote, the emphasis on sustainability in business, and questions around value creation and capture in commoditized markets all suggest that the earlier academic paradigms for managing interorganizational relationships need updating to accommodate the challenges of coordinating, collaborating, and controlling interfirm relationships.

This is an opportune moment to take stock of what we know about the governance of interorganizational relationships and a pivotal time for motivating further research that can shed light on the burning issues of our time. Against this backdrop, this Special Issue aims to extend the literature on interorganizational governance.

AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for empirical and conceptual research that reflects these changes and their resulting implications for the governance of interfirm relationships. This Special Issue provides a forum for new research in the interorganizational space across disciplines including, but not limited to, marketing, management, supply chain, international business, and other disciplines. A non-exhaustive list of potential topics includes:

• The governance of new business models such as platforms and digital marketplaces, including those focused on B2B, B2B2C, or B2C.
• How to govern temporary organizations for e.g., innovation, or for delivery to agreed-upon-terms.
• The governance implications of exogenous shocks such as the pandemic which has upended multiple aspects of business.
• How plural governance can be best combined and what “matches” are most productive.
• The forms and types of monitoring of interfirm relationships – do existing standards suffice?
• New forms of interfirm incentive design
• The role of big data and analytics in structuring interfirm relationships
• The governance implications of sustainability in interfirm relationships
• Value creation and capture
• The role of digital AI in the governance of interfirm relationships
• New forms of collaboration between firms such as those in digitally enabled B2B ecosystems
• Services and solutions businesses
• Existing conceptualizations of governance – Sufficient or in need of updates?

• Submissions should be prepared using JIOR manuscript guidelines which can be found on the Instructions for Authors page
• Papers will be reviewed according to a double-blind review process
• Although suggested topics are listed above, we welcome questions about the special issue including proposed topics and fit. Please direct questions to the editors of the issue (Vishal Kashyap at [email protected] and/or Erik Mooi at [email protected]).

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