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Business Networks
Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems. This book looks at such questions as: How do we make sense of the business networks we participate in and the networks we observe from a distance? Are business networks distinct from social networks, and if so what distinguishes them? How can business network analysis from a multidisciplinary perspective enhance strategic management? Emanuela Todeva deftly explores the patterns of networking and the dynamics of network relations...
Business Network Paradigms
The concept of business networks is similar to the concepts of culture, organisation, or relationship as they hold multiple meanings. These concepts are overloaded with connotations of personal experience and academic discourse, and are open to limitless interpretations. This paper contains extracts from the book on 'Business Networks: Strategies and Structure' (Todeva, 2006), and introduces the main distinction between the structural, the relational and the cultural approaches to analysis of business networks. The discussion in the book also follows a distinction between three distinctive levels of analysis - the network actors, the relationships between them, and the entire network configuration. The main argument is towards the complementary use of multiple approaches to network analysis, and an interdisciplinary research based on complex and synthetic theoretical frameworks. Individual concepts are discussed in the book in the context of their originating theoretical paradigms, and also in a new integrated framework, called 'Antecedents to business network theory.'
Business Networks
Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems. This book looks at such questions as: How do we make sense of the business networks we participate in and the networks we observe from a distance? Are business networks distinct from social networks, and if so what distinguishes them? How can business network analysis from a multidisciplinary perspective enhance strategic management? Emanuela Todeva deftly explores the patterns of networking and the dynamics of network relations...
Management of International Business Networks
Fully updated and revised, this second edition builds upon the foundations of business network theory introduced in Business Networks: Strategy and Structure. Drawing together the international dimensions of global business networks and a discussion of the modes of foreign market entry, this book covers a range of management issues including: co-ordination governance evolution of business networks across borders. This book will be of interest to those studying or researching ownership or organization of enterprises, business systems analysis and economics and business and management in general.
Universities, Innovation and the Economy
1. New paradigms in the twenty-first century -- 2. The regional economy and the university -- 3. Measuring the impact -- 4. Europe -- 5. The United States -- 6. Labour markets in Europe and the United States -- 7. Grenoble and Oxfordshire -- 8. Stanford, Louisville and Princeton -- 9. Conclusions.
Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China
'Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China' addresses how knowledge transfer and innovation are interwoven within complex networks and how social capital contributes to the acquisition of crucial resources and business success in multi-type enterprises in China.
Uniting Diverse Organizations
Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit, or "Network Administrative Organization" (NAO), manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal. Goal-directed networks are those that come together to achieve a shared objective, in addition to the individual organization-specific goals. This book’s focus is on the management of goal-directed networks. Despite the fact that formalized goal-directed interorganizational networks have become extremely popular in the public and nonprofit sectors, as many social problems require concerted action, publications on managing goal-directed networks do not exist. In this book, author Angel Saz-Carranza examines four networks that differ by size, scope, and geographical location. He offers a novel and innovative framework focusing on networks’ inherent internal tensions between unity and diversity, paralleling the differentiation/integration tension found in organization theory, which has not previously been applied to interorganizational networks.
Procuring Complex Performance
This book examines the management of Procuring Complex Performance (PCP) in large-scale programmes that includes the downstream support phase in sectors such as construction, healthcare, transport, aerospace, marine and defence. It brings together a series of edited chapters to explain why the traditional combination of linear project management and highly detailed contracts are now unsuited to the dynamics of emerging customer requirements based on performance and outcome. Working with leading business professors across the UK and Europe, Caldwell and Howard present the case for why large-scale programmes of world class organizations often represent a shifting frontier between the boundarie...
Decisions: Risk and Reward
This book addresses a wide range of contemporary issues in decision research, such as how individuals deal with uncertainty and complexity, gender-based differences in decision-making, what determines decision performance and why people choose risky activities.
Formula Funding of Public Services
The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion of public service expenditure is distributed using formulae, in services such as health care, local government, social security and higher education. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice underlying the use of such formulae as a basis for funding public services. The philosophy, design and economic consequences of funding formulae have become key policy issues worldwide. However, till now, there has been no text which brings together the economic, statistical and political issues underlying formula funding. This key book fills that gap. Written by a leading international expert on the design of funding formulae, this important book includes empirical evidence from a range of countries and will be a valuable resource for all those involved in this field.
