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Title The formation of inter-organizational networks / edited by Mark Ebers
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents I. Introduction. 1. Explaining Inter-organizational Network Formation / Mark Ebers -- II. Resource Flows: The Role of Activity Links. 2. Relationships as Activity Links / Anna Dubois and Hakan Hakansson. 3. Inter-Firm Responses to Heterogeneity of Demand over Time / Geoff Easton and Luis Araujo. 4. The Network Structure of Inter-Firm Relationships in the Southern Italian Mechanical Industry / Alessandro Lomi and Alessandro Grandi -- III. Mutual Expectations: The Role of Trust. 5. Processes Facilitating Reliance on Trust in Inter-Organizational Networks / Peter Smith Ring. 6. Research and Development Alliances: Ensuring Trust by Manual Commitments / Paul De Laat. 7. An Economic Model of Inter-Firm Networks / Mark Casson and Howard Cox -- IV. Information Flows: The Role of Catalysts. 8. Co-ordinating Multi-Firm Innovative Processes: Entrepreneur as Catalyst in Small-Firm Networks / Andrea Lipparini and Maurizio Sobrero
9. Learning through Intermediaries: The Case of Inter-Firm Research Collaborations / Susanne Lutz. 10. Mixed Mode Operation of Electronic Markets and Hierarchies / Christopher P. Holland and Geoff Lockett -- V. Conclusion. 11. The Forms, Costs, and Development Dynamics of Inter-Organizational Networking / Mark Ebers and Anna Grandori
Summary Whether described as strategic alliances, trading networks or joint ventures, the varying organisational arrangements between firms are seen as a form of economic co-ordination distinct from archetypal ideas of firms and markets
Notes Papers from a workshop organized by the editor as part of the European Management and Organization in Transition (EMOT) program sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and held in Berlin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Business enterprises -- Computer networks.
Business networks.
Author Ebers, Mark.
LC no. 97006277 99031595
ISBN 0198289480
0198296029 (paperback)