A capability of ending relationships - the changes across the life cycle of a relationship

• Autorzy: Patrycja Klimas , Michał Nadolny , Sylwia Stańczyk , Karina Sachpazidu , Łukasz Kuźmiński

Warianty tytułu

Zdolność zakańczania relacji - zmienność na przestrzeni cyklu życia relacji

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper investigates if the capability of ending inter-organizational relationships increases when the relationship evolves over subsequent phases of its life cycle. First, we outline the literature-based operationalization of five phases of the interorganizational relationships' life cycle: initial, development, maintenance, dormant/end, and reactivation. Second, based on a study of 800 relationships of software developers operating in Poland, we present how the three facets of the capability of ending relationships (i.e., general procedures to end non-desirable cooperation, formal regulations dedicated to end specific cooperation; rules of passing out a deficient partner) change when the relationship goes through the subsequent phases of the life cycle. Our findings provide evidence for the dominance of inter-organizational relationships in a maintenance phase, quite intensive exploitation of re-activated inter-organizational relationships (approx. 10% of relationships), slight and not significant differences in the levels of capability of ending the relationship in subsequent phases of the inter-organizational relationships' life cycle.(original abstract)

W artykule zbadano, czy zdolność zakańczania relacji międzyorganizacyjnych rośnie wraz z ewolucją relacji w kolejnych fazach cyklu życia. Po pierwsze, w opracowaniu przedstawiono - opartą na wynikach analizy literatury - operacjonalizację pięciu faz cyklu życia relacji międzyorganizacyjnych: początkowej, rozwoju, utrzymania, uśpienia/zakończenia, a także reaktywacji. Po drugie, opierając się na wynikach ilościowych badań 800 twórców oprogramowania działających w Polsce, w opracowaniu zaprezentowano, jak zmieniają się trzy przejawy zdolności do zakańczania relacji (tj. ogólne procedury kończenia niepożądanej współpracy; formalne regulacje kończenia konkretnej współpracy; zasady pomijania niepoprawnego partnera), gdy relacja międzyorganizacyjna przechodzi przez kolejne fazy cyklu życia. Wyniki przeprowadzonych badań wskazują na dominację relacji międzyorganizacyjnych w fazie utrzymania, dość intensywne wykorzystywanie reaktywowanych relacji międzyorganizacyjnych (ok. 10% relacji współpracy), niewielkie i nieistotne statystycznie różnice w poziomach zdolności zakańczania relacji międzyorganizacyjnych w kolejnych fazach ich cyklu życia.(abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Partner relationships; Cooperation; Comparative analysis of enterprise; Corporate objectives; Corporate ethics; Enterprises functioning in the market

PL

Relacje partnerskie; Współpraca; Analiza porównawcza przedsiębiorstw; Cele przedsiębiorstwa; Etyka przedsiębiorstwa; Funkcjonowanie przedsiębiorstwa na rynku

• Czasopismo: Organizacja i Kierowanie
• Rocznik: 2022
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 97--113

Twórcy

autor

Patrycja Klimas

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu

autor

Michał Nadolny

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu

autor

Sylwia Stańczyk

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu

autor

Karina Sachpazidu

• Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

autor

Łukasz Kuźmiński

• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu

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