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.

Unternehmensnetzwerke können dazu beitragen, auf die Umweltdynamik flexibel reagieren zu können. Allerdings sind Netzwerke nicht nur Mittel zur Bewältigung des Umweltwandels, sondern auch dessen Opfer, da sie aufgrund ihrer hohen Eigendynamik Gegenstand permanenter Veränderung sind. Die...

This book proposes that organizational policies are what ensure the institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in organizations. It presents several case studies from corporations and other institutions that describe effective use of foresight methods and internal policies to...

This book provides the conceptual and operational tools for understanding the mechanisms for assigning a rating to a network of companies. In it, the author explores the rating systems of corporate networks and analyses the link between rating and an enterprise network

This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects...

This book explores new ways for companies to sustain their success, by means of viable business models and a values-driven culture. The point of departure is a value proposition designed to last, and grounded in the values espoused and actively practiced by the organization. These values are in...

Globalization effects nearly everyone and everything; and so, it does for networks and its different dimensions. Anna-Lena Bunse explores the network structure of migrant entrepreneurs in Bremen-Gröpelingen, and asks how informal networks for migrant entrepreneurs are structured and how migrant...

This book investigates the dynamics of the management of sustainability in networks and clusters - an area of increasing importance that is neglected by the many studies addressing sustainability at the single-enterprise level. The focus is in particular on projects involving groups of...

The book aims to collect the most recent research and best practices in the cooperative and networking small business field identifying new theoretical models and describing the relationship between cooperation and networks in the small business strategy context. It examines different concepts...