Abstracts
Résumé
Les organisations publiques, longtemps critiquées pour leur style de travail bureaucratique et intrusif, sont dorénavant encouragées à collaborer dans l’utilisation des services (partage de services) au sein de réseaux. La mise en place de ces réseaux demeure une entreprise complexe, car les organisations sont multiples, elles sont dotées de ressources et d’une capacité d’absorption limitées et variées et leurs stades de développement diffèrent. Cette étude analyse le déploiement de trois projets de services partagés. Une stratégie de collaboration différente a été adoptée par chaque cas étudié. Les trois arrangements ont été comparés et liés à la situation de départ à l’aide des théories des compétences clés et de la capacité d’absorption. Nos résultats montrent que le développement d’un accord de services partagés est influencé par des facteurs dépendant de la trajectoire choisie, dont le type d’organisations impliquées, leurs relations, leur capacité d’absorption et leur situation géographique.
Abstract
Public Organizations (POs) have been slow in innovating their service provisioning bureaucracy. Recently, POs have been stimulated to cooperate with each other in loosely coupled organizational arrangements by making use of each other’s services – i.e., the sharing of services. The development of these networks is difficult, since they embrace several organizations whose developments are often out of sync and their resources and absorptive capacity are limited and diverse. This study analyzes and examines three cases in which three different collaboration strategies were adopted. Based on the core competency and absorptive capacity theory, the three cases are then compared. This comparison shows that of the variety of shared service collaboration strategies can be explained by several factors including path-dependencies, the organizations involved, their interrelationships, available resources, capabilities and geographical position.
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