It’s not about the maestro: a case of orchestration failure in an interorganizational network

Maria Martini Barzolai () and Anna Moretti
Additional contact information
Maria Martini Barzolai: Dept. of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venice

No 10, Working Papers from Venice School of Management - Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Abstract: Orchestrated networks represent one type of well-studied interorganizational networks where a central organization carries the burden of developing the network and making sure it reaches the desired outcomes. Through a qualitative case study in the tourism field, we enlighten how in such a process the orchestrator balances different pressures and dynamics coming from the other network members interacting at two different levels, the political and the operative ones. We explain the final negative outcome as the orchestrator failed to acknowledge (i) the multi-layered network structure, and (ii) the misalignment of actors’ belonging to the two levels of interaction (the operative and the political one). Our paper therefore represents one of the first empirical cases of orchestration failure and allows us to advance extant theory of orchestration by proposing a multi-level and pluralistic vision of such a process.

Keywords: interorganizational network; Network orchestration; Orchestration failure; Tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2022-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.unive.it/web/fileadmin/user_upload/dip ... rs/2022/2022wp10.pdf First version, 2022 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vnm:wpdman:196

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Venice School of Management - Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Daria Arkhipova ().