Business Networks: Strategy and Structure

✍ Scribed by Emanuela Todeva

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Developing an interdisciplinary approach to business networks, this book reviews the leading economic management and organizational theories to explore how the behavior of business networks is conceptualized. Focusing on evolving international businesses, Business Networks contains practical, comparative analyses of case studies of international business networks, including the information and communications industry, the automobile industry and the petrochemical industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Illustrations......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 Aspiring networks......Page 35
3 Acting in business networks......Page 65
4 Relationships in business networks......Page 101
5 Business networks structures......Page 145
6 Types of business networks......Page 177
7 Conclusions......Page 221
Appendix......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 247
Index......Page 275