A Study of the Impact of Organisational Territoriality on Collaborative Networks: A Case of Project Reservation in State Grid

In modern organisational management research, territorial characteristics have a non-negligible impact on organisational collaboration. Territoriality’s special qualities may have a direct and significant influence on the effectiveness of organizational business collaboration, besides fostering the development of local knowledge to support organizational collaboration indirectly. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore how organisational territoriality characteristics affect the efficiency of collaborative networks. To achieve this goal, we propose a method called Territorial Feature Dimension Mining Method Based on Business (TFD-B) on the basis of the Collaborative Context Metamodel. Firstly, when building the collaborative network, the unique business scenario factors of organizational collaboration are taken into account completely. Subsequently, we conduct further mining and sorting to identify the territorial factors that might have an impact on the collaborative network. Finally, the State Grid Power Supply Company is used as a real case to validate the methodology, and we employ QAP analysis to quantitatively investigate the specific influence relationship between these characteristics and the efficiency of the collaborative network. The main contribution of this study is the proposed TFD-B method, which effectively mines the territorial characteristics affecting collaborative networks at the business level.