Discovering the Rules
Folk Knowledge for Improving GM Partnerships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7800516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy L Meerwarth (corresponding author), E K Briody (0000-0001-6218-371X), Devadatta M Kulkarni, Amey Kulkarni (0000-0003-3061-8269) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 286-302 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.64.3.d2mlqmpdrqda9am2 |
| OpenAlex | W2070823574 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
Partnership collaboration, a critical emerging strategy for General Motors (GM) and for organizations in general, is a way to combine resources and complementary expertise to create new knowledge, products, or services. Since partnerships are a relatively new organizational form, our team was commissioned by the head of GM Research and Development (GM R&D) to understand how private-sector research partnerships functioned and how we might offer suggestions for improving their effectiveness. Participants and organizations engaged in partnerships represent a vast population that stands to benefit from social science research. Understanding partnerships involves examining aspects of the culture of the partnering organizations, as well as the historical context of the partnership, partnership structure and dynamics, activities undertaken, and partnering outcomes. Through our analysis of interview data from the Alcan-GM and BP-GM partnerships, we discovered the concept of partnership rules – prescriptions offered by partnership participants for how partnerships should work. In this report, we develop and validate a methodology for uncovering these unwritten rules. We discuss the methodological and organizational contributions from this methodological analysis and describe the impact of this methodology on all types of gm's research partnerships
Business · Context (archaeology · General partnership · Knowledge management · Political science · Population · Public relations · Sociology · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science
The Dynamics of Rules
Understanding the rationale of strategic technology partnering
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Social Structure and Alliance Formation Patterns
Partnering Across Borders
Intercoder Agreement in Analysis of Responses to Open-Ended Interview Questions
Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2016 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |