This book offers a novel perspective on starting-up new business ventures through examining the process by which they become part of the existing business environment. The book highlights the importance of inter-organizational business relationships. Asserting that new ventures need to interact...

This book systematizes the concepts of business relationships and network embeddedness, taking a new approach to internationalization, relevant for the global economy. It reflects the growing importance of network internationalization theory and explores the impact of embeddedness in domestic...

Presenting 17 tools developed through rigorous design science research, this book bridges the relevance gap within network management. In so doing, it proposes a novel system-framework and establishes a path towards a networks-as-practice view on inter-organizational relationships. The...

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances....

Offene Geschäftsmodelle zeichnen sich unter anderem dadurch aus, dass Kooperationen mit externen Akteuren in der Wertschöpfung und Ertragsgenerierung eines Unternehmens eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Anne-Kathrin Müller stellt den Zusammenhang zwischen offenen Geschäftsmodellen sowie...

Interorganisationalen Netzwerken wird nachgesagt, eine besonders flexible wirtschaftliche Organisationsform zu sein. Erst in jüngster Zeit belegen Studien, dass es auch in Netzwerken – bzw. allgemein in Interorganisationsbeziehungen – zu strukturellen Beharrungstendenzen kommt. Markus...

Possible Positive and Negative Impacts of Business Networking on Innovation and Excellence -- Sustainable Altruism for Business Networking -- Ecology of Innovation in Organizational Settings.- Dimensions of Business Network Effectiveness and Motivations for Business Networking.

This publication focuses on the conditions for promising collaboration. Collaboration is becoming a dominant instrument in today's economy and society and manifests itself in many shapes and forms. It is a challenging instrument which still isn't very well understood and poses the business...

Development of Production Management- from Site to Network Optimisation -- A Model for Network Design -- Clarification of the Initial Strategic Situation -- The Network Configuration -- Network Coordination -- Analysis and Design of Networks in Practice -- Outlook and Summary.

Interne Revision im Spannungsfeld der Network Governance -- Empirische Analyse der Internen Revision in Unternehmensnetzwerken -- Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung der Revisionsarbeit in Verbundgruppen und Franchise-Systemen. .