Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Twilight Rails -- 1. A Road with a Bright Future: Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad -- 2. Crazy Willie & Dandy Molly: Creston, Winterset & Des Moines Railroad -- 3. The Handy Lines: Detroit, Bay City & Western Railroad and Port...

Lead Ore and Surveying le Pays des Illinois -- Early Mining and Smelting in North America -- Tracing Eighty Years of Early Mining Associations -- Early Mineralogical Assessments and Emerging Science -- Unhealthy Spaces Fitted Up with Furnaces.

Informed by the resource-based view of the firm and the strategic network theory, this thesis describes seven cases studies from the information technology and telecommunications industries. Proposed hypotheses cover three research questions on the dynamic aspects of the mentioned theoretical...