Withdrawal of Cooperation in Interorganizational Networks: Reflections Inspired by the Weberian Social Action

• Autor(a) principal: Xavier Filho, Jose Lindenberg Julião
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Paiva Jr., Fernando Gomes de, Sousa, Sérgio Alves de, Medeiros, Janann Joslin
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: https://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/RAM/article/view/6937
• topic: Interorganizational Networks. Withdrawal of Cooperation. Weberian Social Action. Evaluative Substantial Rationality. Cultural Approach.; Redes Interorganizacionales. Retirada de Cooperación. Acción Social Weberiano. Evaluativa Racionalidad Sustancial. Enfoque Cultural.; Redes Interorganizacionais. Desistência da Cooperação. Ação Social Weberiana. Racionalidade Valorativa Substancial. Abordagem Cultural.

Studies of cooperation in interorganizational networks tend to focus on the reasons why organizations enter into cooperative relations and the development of metrics to evaluate their outcomes, with little theoretical attention being given to the reasons for withdrawal of cooperation. In this sense, the objective of the study is to describe the rationale underlying the reasons for the withdrawal by business leaders to maintain participation in interorganizational networks. To this end, a review of the topics of cooperation mechanisms and withdrawal of cooperation was carried, as well as the reasons or types of rationality present in the social sphere decisions based on Weber's typology of social action. The logic of this construction is to highlight the reasons mentioned by the national and international literature for the withdrawal and provide a theoretical basis for understanding this type of rationality in decisions to withdraw cooperation. Content analysis was used for treatment of the corpus composed of 10 Brazilian theoretical and empirical studies carried out between 2003 and 2013 dealing with the withdrawal of cooperation by members of interorganizational networks. To identify these studies, we consulted articles with respect to the withdrawal of cooperation included in the Brazilian portals for scientific journals scielo.org and Periódicos Capes. Results showed the presence of substantive rationality in addition to instrumental formal rationality in the reports of cooperation withdrawal in the studies consulted. In particular, cultural conflict or shock between members of interorganizational networks was found to be the major reason for the withdrawal of cooperation. These results point to the theoretical importance of including cultural studies among those already used to provide theoretical and analytical support for comprehension of cooperation in interorganizational networks, at present dominated by theories based on premises of instrumental rationality. In this sense, the study contributes to advancing the discussion about the withdrawal of cooperation in networks to address the emergence of new theoretical perspectives contributing the theme of evaluative substantial rationality with a focus on cultural approach.