Abstract:

The aim of the paper is to identify the potential impact of node organization's participation in an inter-organizational network on the character of its strategy and consequently to develop a conceptual framework in that field addressing the proposals. The aim of the paper has been achieved through critical literature studies that constitute the main method used. The topic of the paper emerges from the management sciences, especially strategic management in the field of an organizational strategy and a network paradigm. The most salient result of the paper constitute the following proposals to be verified in the next research step: the more intensive network relationships, (1) the higher adjustment to the environment; (2) the weaker resources’ allocation; (3) the weaker orientation to internal growth (4) the shorter time horizon; (5) the less salience of managerial goals, desires, values; (6) the less autonomy and decisions’ reversibility. Furthermore, the moderator and mediator variables have been proposed. The paper needs to be supported by continued work addressing the basic mechanisms underlying the associations between inter-organizational network participation and the intensity of particular strategy dimensions in terms of extended research both quantitative and qualitative one. Synthesizing diverse theoretical traditions that influenced studies on inter-organizational networks, it might be envisaged that the paper offers new insights into established literature, especially it shows a quite different perspective – an organizational strategy triggered rigidly by network relationship intensity.