Power Imbalance in Collaboration Relationships
2016
Power plays a significant role in many organizational theories such as resource dependency theory
and transaction cost economics. It allows the strong companies to win more than others, or more
broadly, to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do. Power can seriously affect the
confidence and commitment between parties. This paper aims to analyze the power concept in
inter-organizational relationships. We discuss some formal results modeling power and the set of
elements and properties necessary to understand these concepts. We also proposed a "power
generation process" that allows to describe how power is developed in a relationship according to
dependency. As far as we were able to browse the scientific literature, these are the first attempts to
suggest a robust foundation of the power theory.
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