Organizing Principles for Inter-firm Networks

Elpida Prasopoulou and Angeliki Poulymenakou
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Elpida Prasopoulou: Athens University of Economics and Business
Angeliki Poulymenakou: Athens University of Economics and Business

Chapter Chapter 11 in Managing Dynamic Networks, 2006, pp 283-308 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Throughout this volume, we have reflected on the challenges that managers face in their everyday practice at the inter-firm level. Moreover, we have also examined a concise number of issues that must be addressed by them. Concluding this volume, it is only appropriate to present a comprehensive set of recommendations for network managers. Literature on network management includes an important number of recommendations on various issues troubling managers in such complex situations. However, a systematic, step-by-step grouping of such recommendations is still largely missing from the literature. In this chapter, we provide a set of managerial guidelines arranged according to a life cycle model of inter-firm cooperation. These guidelines are the outcome of in-depth research on specific instances of inter-firm networks as presented in the body of this volume. Specific actions are presented at each stage of the life cycle while a set of managerial implications is presented at the end of the chapter.

Keywords: inter-firm networks; life cycle; dynamic view; organizing principles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32884-X_11

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