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Interorganizational Development

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

This paper defines interorganizational development (IOD) as the application of social science knowledge to the creation of planned, systematic and mutually beneficial cooperative relationships between otherwise autonomous organizations. There is a growing investment being made in interorganizational cooperation by organizations operating in all sectors of our economy. There is also an incomplete but growing body of knowledge which can be applied to help decision-makers exercise more informed judgments as they seek to influence this complex phenomenon. As a concept, IOD provides an action frame of reference for mobilizing existing knowledge to serve such purposes and for directing f uture research inquiries toward questions of direct practical importance. A health policy case is used to illustrate the research and action directions that are facilitated by an application of the IOD concept to interorganizational questions.

Journal of Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, 21-38 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/014920637900500102


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