Internal networking and organisational capability: towards a new perspective of the firm

As firms evolve in an ever-changing environment, new perspectives of firms are needed to explain management practices. Partnership - a relationship that emphasizes equality, shared responsibility and cooperation - and the concept of internal networking (which characterizes an organizational structure that is catalysed by and embedded in partnership relations), form the central theme of this paper in examining the success of an Asian high-tech giant. Given the existence of other similar Western models deploying the partnership concept, the paper also questions the importance of contextual factors in corporate management.