One line of such inter-organizational research
was based on resource exchange as the medium
for sustaining interorganizational relations, but
the focus was on the macro-aspects of exchange;
one influential source was Benson (1975) who
used the (Marxist) logic of substructure and
superstructure from political economy to tease
out basic forces like money and authority, which
were then brought into play in a superstructure
of organizational interactions. He developed his
first model into an analytical model of a two-
leveled policy sector – understood as a subset of