Vilalta-Perdomo, Eliseo, Michel-Villarreal, Rosario, Hingley, Martin and Guercini, Simone (2025). On building effective symbiotic relationships between micro-organisations. A community OR perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society ,
Abstract
Building symbiotic relationships within communities is crucial. Community OR plays a significant role in this process. This paper views communities as integrative processes that foster supportive environments, enabling individuals to enhance their performance while maintaining their identity and pursuing collective goals. This balance is achieved through mutualistic relationships among members. The proposed methodology, based on an in-depth study of previous examples and the authors’ experience, integrates individual preferences and goals to systematically build knowledge. This leads to high-quality interactions that enhance both individual and collective performances. A key aspect is the concept of ‘language’, which analyzes and makes explicit interactions that facilitate community-building. The framework includes a ‘vocabulary’ of individual actions as shared resources and a ‘syntax’ of rules for their use. Three vignettes illustrate the framework, examining the languages of quid pro quo, customers’ needs, and interactions. The first two languages show limitations in fostering mutualistic relationships, while the Language for Interactions emphasizes collaboration and collective resource-building, enabling open-ended contributions and shared enrichment. This approach is a novel contribution to Community OR, proposing a self-organized framework for building supportive communities, addressing systemic challenges, and developing resilient collectives without external dependency.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2025.2476058 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management ?? RG1020 ?? College of Business and Social Sciences College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School Aston University (General) |
Additional Information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Community OR,Language for Interactions,individual preferences and aims,micro-organisations,mutualistic relationships,synergy,Modelling and Simulation,Strategy and Management,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Management Science and Operations Research |
Publication ISSN: | 1476-9360 |
Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2025 16:01 |
Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2025 10:43 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2025-03-10 |
Published Online Date: | 2025-03-10 |
Accepted Date: | 2025-03-03 |
Authors: |
Vilalta-Perdomo, Eliseo
(![]() Michel-Villarreal, Rosario Hingley, Martin Guercini, Simone |