Organizational Ecosystems
Interorganizational relationships are the relatively enduring resource transactions, flown and linkages that occur among two or more organizations. Traditionally these transactions and relationships have been seen as a necessary evil to obtain what an organization needs.
The presumption has been that the world is composed of distinct businesses that thrive on autonomy and compete for supremacy .A company may be forced into interorganizational relationships depending on its need and the instability and complexity of the environment.
A new view described by James Moore argues that organizations are now evolving into business ecosystems. An organizational ecosystem is a system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment. An ecosystem cuts across traditional industry lines.
A similar concept is the megacommunity approach in which businesses governments and nonprofit organizations join together across sectors and industries to tackle huge compelling problem of mutual interest such as energy development world hunger or cybercrime