chapter 1 Ending a project: More than project closure -- chapter 2 Network context of the project -- chapter 3 Project-ending strategy -- chapter 4 Project-ending competence -- chapter 5 Managing the network context of an Ending Project -- chapter 6 Conclusions: How to be successful in project...

Adopts a holistic network approach to analyse a company’s entry into a turbulent market. The entry is examined as a process. The analysis focuses on the temporal context of business interaction; it inspects how the company copes with uncertainty, and proposes that the concept of a focal net be...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on interactions between old and new cultural influences, investigating consumer preferences for a new type of product – the mobile phone – by looking at the cultural and socio‐economic factors that affect these preferences. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the important and changing role of personal networks for transformation in Russia, and the related challenges for management. Formal institutions supporting the transformation to a market economy have been weak and Russian managers still tend to rely on...