This paper contributes to the study of projects networks - as a particular type of interorganizational networks - by looking into the mechansims that are able to bind or even lock-in customers into interorganizational relations. The study is set in the field of television production

How do collectives of organizations create a new technological solution or extend an already existing technological path in networked organizational fields? This paper contributes, first, to a general understanding of the recursive interplay between technology development and the processes of...

Managing and working across organizations in a multi-organizational network context has become common practice. Present analyses of such settings are characterized by a structural approach and a focus on ego-centric network relationships. In this conceptual chapter, we propose a process approach...

Although certainly of a much older (or even ancient) origin, during the last two decades or so project networks have become an established object of management and organization research in general and project management studies in particular. While projects are a common, if not the most common...

Taking a whole network perspective, we theorize on whether and how global production networks can enhance their social responsibility by managing the inter-organizational relations that constitute such networks in a more reliable way. Combining insights from the literature on network governance...

Netzwerkzeuge – Einführung und Überblick -- Netzwerkzeuge – Zum reflexiven Umgang mit Methoden und Instrumenten des Netzwerkmanagements -- Kollektive Intelligenz in Netzwerken durch Tools reflexiver Netzwerkberatung -- Situative organisatorische Netzwerkanalyse – Ein Instrument zur...