Foundations of Network Organizations Ontology

Abstract

The issue of network organizations is a complex problem, which reflects the contemporary strategic management. Many publications in this field emphasize the collaboration between companies as the essence of the network and therefore represent an epistemological approach to this problem. However, there remains the problem of explaining the richness of these forms that occur in business practice and often researchers don’t try to answer the question how to approach the explanation of this diversity. The aim of this article is to determine the field which is the theoretical basis for the recognition of ontological approach in interorganizational networks. The content of the paper is subordinated to this objective, first by discussing the characteristics of network organizations threads, secondly, by attempting to identify the conditions for a typology of these organizations.