Strategic decision‐makers today face complex environments with meta‐problems that cut across multiple industries. Single organizations cannot address these meta‐problems. As a result, organizations collaborate with partners, among them also competitors, and commonly work together in multi‐partner initiatives (MPIs). How these organizations jointly form an interorganizational strategy (IOS), however, is not well understood. In this paper, we extend the current strategy process conceptualizations from an intraorganizational focus of a single firm to an interorganizational process of multiple strategy‐making entities working together. We selected the eMobility sector as our research context to develop such an IOS process model. We first developed 25 cases on MPIs in the German‐speaking area based on interviews and desk research, before we focused on the eMobility ecology in the southern part of Germany. We identified 291 MPIs, conducted interviews with 19 central actors, held several workshops and informal gatherings, and complemented these data with an analysis of publicly accessible documents. Using an inductive research design, we developed a process model that unfolds in three phases: initiation, negotiation and execution. We reveal specific process dynamics in MPIs to be critical in the formation and manifestation of IOS.

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跨组织边界的战略形成：组织间过程模型

如今，战略决策者面临着涉及跨多个行业的元问题的复杂环境。单一组织无法解决这些元问题。结果，组织与合作伙伴（其中还包括竞争对手）进行协作，并且通常在多伙伴计划（MPI）中一起工作。但是，这些组织如何共同形成组织间战略（IOS）的方法尚未广为人知。在本文中，我们将当前的战略流程概念化从单个公司的组织内重点扩展到多个战略制定实体一起工作的组织间流程。我们选择eMobility部门作为我们研究IOS流程模型的研究背景。根据访谈和案头研究，我们首先在德语区开发了25个有关MPI的案例，在我们专注于德国南部的eMobility生态之前。我们确定了291个MPI，与19个主要参与者进行了访谈，举行了几次研讨会和非正式聚会，并通过对可公开获取的文件进行了分析来补充这些数据。使用归纳研究设计，我们开发了一个过程模型，该过程模型分三个阶段展开：启动，协商和执行。我们揭示了MPI中特定的过程动力学，这对IOS的形成和表现至关重要。启动，协商和执行。我们揭示了MPI中特定的过程动力学，这对IOS的形成和表现至关重要。启动，协商和执行。我们揭示了MPI中特定的过程动力学，这对IOS的形成和表现至关重要。