Assessing Partnership Alternatives in an IT Network Employing Analytical Methods

Table 1

Summary of reviewed papers in formation phase of interorganizational relationships.

Paper	Level			Theoretic	Descriptive/prescriptive	Type of achievement
	Dyadic	Portfolio of relations	Networks
[66]	✓				Descriptive	Framework
[67]	✓				Descriptive	Framework
[68]	✓				Descriptive	Framework
[75]			✓		Descriptive	Conceptual model
[48]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Theoretical propositions
[65]	✓				Descriptive	Framework
[49]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Theoretical propositions
[51]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Theoretical propositions
[61]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Theoretical propositions
[47]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Theoretical propositions
[58]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Conceptual model
[77]		✓			Prescriptive	Framework
[76]			✓		Descriptive	Conceptual model
[34]		✓			Prescriptive	Framework
[23]		✓			Prescriptive	Framework
[69]	✓				Descriptive	Statistical propositions
[78]			✓		Descriptive	Affecting factors
[79]			✓		Descriptive	Framework
[70]	✓				Descriptive	Mathematical analysis
[71]	✓				Descriptive	Conceptual model
[72]	✓				Descriptive	Conceptual framework
[73]	✓				Descriptive	Logical framework
[74]	✓				Descriptive	Theoretic implications
[80]			✓		Descriptive	Conceptual model
[81]		✓		✓	Descriptive	Theoretic implications