Cooperative network structures as innovative form of interaction between members of major projects

Abstract

Cooperation of partners is a necessity for innovative projects with a high influence on a society. Such projects are usually closely related to changes in socio economic environment of a city, region or even a whole country. In this day and age, number of projects impossible to implement by a resource of a single (even diversified) company, has grown significantly. “Network cooperation” have gone mainstream in many countries and industries. But even these days this term has multiple descriptions. This article observe specifics of network cooperative structures that affecting regions of project implementation in a considerable way. The key topics of this article are factors affecting business to establish cooperative network structures as well as potential outcome of such a management practice. This management practice will require an additional demand for development of processes and mechanisms of cooperative network management. In order to create these mechanisms and practices it is necessary to combine methodological approach of disciplines like “net economy”, project management, institution economy and neoinstitutionalism, organizational theory, management science etc. On the border of these approaches and methods might be received a result of methodology, algorithms and practical approaches for management of such structures. At this moment we may constant a global tendency for an increasing share of cooperation projects among all innovative projects implemented by separate companies In a long-term perspective global players will strengthen this tendency due to a globalization of markets and economies. These trends indicate necessity of development of an efficient way of management and models of coordination of network cooperative structures.