Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age

Globalization, the information technology revolution, individualization and other processes in contemporary society all impact on organizations. Organizational actors are recognizing the need to make sense of these permutations, reconstruct their indentities and positions and find ways of coping with the complexity of relationships within and between organizations. This work analyses the framework of these organizational relationships and the dynamics of identity information and bonding on several levels. Organizational practices, managerial and professional coping strategies are all explored within the context of shifting inter-organizational relationships. The findings are more complex and demonstrate continuities as well as discontinuities. The authors analyse the way organizational actors, such as managers, information technology specialists, creative professionals and academic researchers, make sense of the social transformations in the networking age and their impact on organizations. The organizational settings which are studied include armies, universities, non-governmental organizations, information technology development houses, telecom operators and organizations in the food production chain. This multi-disciplinary work should appeal to a wide-ranging audience of scholars, practitioners and consultants across various fields including organization and management studies, industrial relations, social psychology, work and organization psychology and sociology, HRM and employment relationships.