Purpose – The paper suggests a framework for analyzing business relationships using the hierarchy‐markets‐network framework. Instead of treating these three interaction modes as mutually exclusive, an integrated model is suggested offering the opportunity for dyadic and dynamic analyses....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce neurological networks as a new metaphor for industrial networks. It also discusses a dysfunction of neurological networks, called writer's block, and compares the disease and potential cures with parallel issues in business networks. The...

Purpose – The paper seeks to use the concept of net social capital to help explain the behaviour of a business constellation, a group of entrepreneurial firms in different businesses that cooperate to their mutual benefit. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an...

Purpose – While numerous articles have stressed the importance of developing and maintaining supply networks, there is still a dearth of studies that address how supply networks arise and change over time. The purpose of this article is to describe and conceptualise how a firm initiates the...