Inter-organisational governance : A review, conceptualisation and extension

Roehrich, Jens and Selviaridis, Kostas and Kalra, Jas and van der Valk, Wendy and Fang, Feng (2020) Inter-organisational governance : A review, conceptualisation and extension. Production Planning and Control, 31 (6). pp. 453-469. ISSN 0953-7287

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Abstract

Although the concepts of relational and contractual governance in inter-organizational relationships have attracted academic and practitioner interest over the last decades, to date there have been limited comprehensive and systematic efforts to review, analyse and synthesise extant literature. We review and analyse 1,415 publications identified from a wide range of management disciplines and journals from 1990 to 2018. We deploy bibliographic and content analyses to offer a comprehensive literature analyses and synthesis and subsequently develop and position a multidimensional framework of exchange governance. The proposed framework covers existing conceptualisations of exchange governance and its diverse mechanisms, environmental dimensions influencing the use of exchange governance mechanisms and performance implications. We uncover areas that are currently under-studied and draw out fruitful future research avenues.