'Organizational Diplomacy' by Heynen Associates describes a conceptual framework for non-state civil societal and economic actors meeting the strategic management requirements of organizations' external policies and relations. Beyond that it integrates interdisciplinary subjects and the additional categories of network and digital, cience and cultural diplomacy.

The Organizational Diplomacy main characteristics are:

- non-hierarchical and decentralized communication, liaison and relationship management at the interface of strategic matters in organizational and societal affairs of the inter-regional and transnational arena,

- multilateral participation | exchange of adequate, multiple transnational actors | stakehoders, incl. regional | international governmental institutions and individuals,

- interdisciplinary collaborative syndication for networking and sharing the actors' knowledge, ideas, strategic interests and ressources,

- facilitating networks coordination for transitional innovation and problem-, crisis-, and conflict-solving by forming common grounds and synergies of policies and interests,

- transformational plattform generation for normativity and regimes building …

The Organizational Diplomacy integrates several strategic advantages:

Based on the function and use of traditional diplomatic measures – communication, negotiation, representation – 'Organizational Diplomacy' processes the facilitation of …

- ballancing of actors' risks and influence in the transnational arena,

- the anticipation of antagonisms, dilemas, and|or conflicts,

- early internalization of civil societal developments and strategic solutions provision,

- multiple stakeholder diversity coordination for transitional management cooperation,

- integrating mutually completing expertise, ideas, know-how, strategies,

- informal dialogues and discrete problem solving,

- deepening intercultural exchange for understanding and harmonization, bridging differences, conflict transformation,

- creating | saving souvereignty and controling transparency in maintaining legitimicy of policies, interests, actions,

- concordance generation and synergetic collaboration, preventive conciliation,

- futures vision building and transformational strategic policy syndication, 

- determination of governance policies for regimes building, ...