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Trust is modelled as either enforceable or intrinsic. Antecedents of trust in history, human nature, personality and culture are analyzed. The implications of these for the dynamics of trust in business-to-business networks of organizations are discussed. Finally an agenda for empirical research...

This paper explores the processes of transforming a network of non-mandated exchange relations into a cohesive and innovative partnership. The question this paper attempts to answer is how to speed up innovation processes in such networks. The paper demonstrates that transformation of networks...

Most of the studies about industrial clusters and innovation stress the importance of firms’ geographical proximity and their embeddedness in local business networks, as factors that positively affect their learning and innovation processes. More recently, scholars have started to claim that...

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

Our research aims at analyzing de possibility of formulating a theory of firms’ network, as an organisational form. The research begins by presenting the concept of complex adaptive systems, next we continue with two complementary points of view regarding the business network; in the third...

El actual entorno globalizado presenta importantes retos tanto para pymes como para grandes grupos. El presente artículo analiza las cooperaciones empresariales como vía de crecimiento para adaptarse al nuevo escenario, acotando este estudio al sector turístico español. Tras realizar una...

Business start-ups are expected to make major contributions to economic growth. However, most of them lack internal business resources that are necessary for survival and growth. Therefore, business and financial networks that provide business opportunity and external resources are essential for...