Transactions of the Academic Association for Organizational Science
Online ISSN : 2186-8530
ISSN-L : 2186-8530
Managing Conflicting : Concurrent Values in Interorganizational Relations
Masahiko KAMEKURAHidekazu KURIMOTO
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2019 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 240-246

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Seto City faces a risk of depleting ‘rare’ and ‘valuable’ resource of raw materials of pottery related industries. The necessities to utilize limited resource urge city office to manage conflicting / concurrent values among interest groups such as industrial policy division, retail business promotion division, culture division, and so on. This research explores concepts and models to solve the problems by examining interorganizational (IOR) and coordination theories of economic organization and their brief history, which founds that the manner of managing values in IOR literatures changed from egoistic to altruistic, from controlling to coordinating. Newly arising 4 concepts resolving coordination problems are introduced: (1) ‘Communities of practice’ are groups of people to share concerns and problems and to deepen their knowledge and expertise. (2) ‘Responsible leadership’ is looking for stakeholder priorities, not only training but also measuring. (3) ‘Collective impact’ is based on the idea that social problems can be solved only by the coordinated efforts of those players such as (divisions within) city office and affiliates, business organizations, etc. (4) ‘Progettazione’ refers to the sustainable system developing creativity like Achille Castiglioni. Those concepts are integrated in the model developed implying a necessity of ‘resourcing space’ (Wiedner, et al., 2017).

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