A Dynamic Theory of Network Failure: The Case of the Venice Film Festival and the Local Hospitality System

Organizational and sociological research dealing with network governance has mainly focused on network advantages rather than on their problems or dysfunctionalities. This focus has left the field of network failure partially unexplored. We argue that although there have been some attempts to explic...

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Published inOrganization studies Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 607 - 633
Main Authors Moretti, Anna, Zirpoli, Francesco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2016
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Failure
Hospitality industry
Motion picture festivals
Organization theory
Social networks
Studies
Venice Italy
Italy
institutions
mobilizing
cognitive frames
opportunism
framing
network governance
political coalitions
dynamic
network failure
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Summary:Organizational and sociological research dealing with network governance has mainly focused on network advantages rather than on their problems or dysfunctionalities. This focus has left the field of network failure partially unexplored. We argue that although there have been some attempts to explicitly theorize network failures, the existing explanations, which are based on structural or social conditions, are not exhaustive. In this article we report the results of our empirical investigation on an underperforming network formed by the world-famous Venice Film Festival and its local hospitality system. We inductively derive a dynamic theory of network failure premised on the interplay of the network’s static dimensions (opportunism and ignorance) and dynamic dimensions (framing and mobilizing), and the role of institutions.
ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044
DOI:10.1177/0170840615613369