{"title":"Regulator driven cooperation of competing companies - a case study","authors":"Tommi Niemi","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2006.7477047","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The importance of cooperation as a part of development process has increased during last decades. The complexity of Information Systems has grown so much that it has become more difficult for a single organization to manage all aspects and stages of Information System development. In some cases, there is a need for implementing software projects with cooperation of different organizations. There might be several motivations for this, for example to reach market or regulator driven goals. This case study discusses regulator driven cooperation between three competing companies in Finland. While the companies are competitors on the Telecommunication markets in Finland, they worked in cooperation for common goals. The research was carried out by using two process models. A social process model developed by Newman and Robey with later addition by Heiskanen demonstrated fruitfulness of regulator driven cooperation. A framework developed by Ring and Van de Ven was useful when evaluating the development of cooperation not only at interorganisational level but also at intraorganisational level.","PeriodicalId":333679,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2006.7477047","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The importance of cooperation as a part of development process has increased during last decades. The complexity of Information Systems has grown so much that it has become more difficult for a single organization to manage all aspects and stages of Information System development. In some cases, there is a need for implementing software projects with cooperation of different organizations. There might be several motivations for this, for example to reach market or regulator driven goals. This case study discusses regulator driven cooperation between three competing companies in Finland. While the companies are competitors on the Telecommunication markets in Finland, they worked in cooperation for common goals. The research was carried out by using two process models. A social process model developed by Newman and Robey with later addition by Heiskanen demonstrated fruitfulness of regulator driven cooperation. A framework developed by Ring and Van de Ven was useful when evaluating the development of cooperation not only at interorganisational level but also at intraorganisational level.
作为发展进程一部分的合作的重要性在过去几十年中有所增加。信息系统的复杂性已经增长得如此之多,以至于单个组织管理信息系统开发的所有方面和阶段变得更加困难。在某些情况下,需要与不同组织合作来实现软件项目。这样做可能有几个动机,例如达到市场或监管机构驱动的目标。本案例研究讨论了芬兰三家竞争公司在监管机构推动下的合作。虽然这两家公司在芬兰的电信市场上是竞争对手,但它们为了共同的目标而合作。采用两种过程模型进行了研究。由Newman和Robey建立的社会过程模型(后来由Heiskanen补充)证明了监管者驱动的合作是富有成效的。Ring和Van de Ven开发的框架在评估组织间和组织内合作的发展时都很有用。