Six AIB Fellows in Search of the Future of IB Research

Interorganizational cooperation is humankind’s destiny and constitutes a major component of IB research through the spatial and organizational disaggregation of the value chain over several locations and nations, and under a multiplicity of organizational arrangements. The geographical fragmentation of the value chain has been accompanied by an organizational reconfiguration whereby the firm adds value internally only to selected portions of its value chain while leaving other selected bits (and support services) to external providers. The latter, in turn, are linked to the focal firm in a spectrum of organizational relationships ranging from highly cooperative or relational, to contractual arm’s-length ones.