Inter-organizational interaction in the practice of Lithuania's Local Government

Theoretical and practical aspects of inter-organizational interaction are developed in a dissertation.The first chapter of the thesis analyses the theoretical background of the inter-organizational interaction in a thorough and integrated way. There is an overview of Lithuanian scholars’ contribution in analysis of different problems related to partnerships and collaboration, the analysis of the inter-organizational interaction concept contents, the analysis of the inter-organizational interaction models, definition of the collaboration determinants, the purification of inter-organizational interaction forms, the description of the joint activities aspects among the main Local Government authorities and other organizations.The second part analyses the practical aspects of the Local Government inter-organizational interaction.The first stage of research aimed at highlighting the peculiarities of organization and management of inter-organizational interaction in the municipalities and at defining the main problems. For this purpose, the examples of inter-organizational interaction of Local Government and other public, private and non-government sector organizations were analysed.In the second stage of research, the inter-organizational interaction is analysed on the micro level. The main objective of the research was to define the features of the meetings of inter-organizational interaction subjects and to highlight the most typical meeting organization and management... [to full text]