Inter-organizational Resource Orchestration in EPC Projects:A Study of the Synergy between Relational Embeddedness and Governance Mechanisms
In EPC(Engineering Procurement Construction)projects,a reasonable relationship between the general contractor and the subcontractor is embedded to help achieve a good inter-organizational resource orchestration and maximize the competitive advantages of the general contracting model.However,the existing research on the impact of relational embeddedness on resource orchestration suffers from the paradox of relational embeddedness and lacks the consideration of the impact of project actors'cognitive initiatives,which makes it difficult to explain the internal logic of inter-organizational resource orchestration in EPC projects.Based on this,from the perspective of institutional logic,this paper adopts the multi-case study method and takes four typical EPC projects as the research object to explore the path of inter-organizational resource orchestration under different relational embeddedness between the general contractor and the subcontractor.It is found that:(1)project-and participant-oriented inter-organizational resource orchestration behaviors exist under the initial relational embedding of both strong ties and weak ties,and the design of constraint-and incentive-oriented governance mechanisms can synergise with relational embeddedness to influence the nature and effect of inter-organizational resource orchestration.(2)different relational embeddedness collaborative project governance mechanisms acts on the inter-organizational resource orchestration of the project through the institutional logic coupling of the general contractor and the subcontractor's.The findings provide a new theoretical explanation for the relational embeddedness paradox,as well as theoretical support and practical reference for the general contractors to adopt appropriate project governance mechanisms to optimize inter-organizational cooperation according to the relational embeddedness situation.
relational embeddednessEPC projectresource orchestrationperspective of institutional logicgovernance mechanism
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