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Title No business is an island : making sense of the interactive business world / edited by Håkan Håkansson, Ivan Snehota
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages)
Contents Front Cover; No Business is an Island: Making Sense of the Interactive Business World; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Step 1: Constituting the Advisory Board -- Defining the themes; Step 2: Organising and carrying out three workshops; Step 3: 2016 Symposium: 'IMP -- Making sense of the interactive business world'; Step 4: Publications; The Significance of Business Relationships; The World of Business as a Rain Forest; The Development of the IMP Research Stream; What Is behind the Products and Services We Use?; A Car; A Table; A Medical Treatment; Transportation Service
FishDistinctive Features of the Business World; Continuity of Inter-Organizational Business Relationships; Network Structures; Interaction; Consequences for Management, Policy Makers and Research; Implications for Management; Implications for Policy Makers; Implications for Research; Interactivity as a Feature of the Business World and the Challenge for Management and Research; Management in the Interactive Business World; The Role of Management in the Interactive Business World; The Task of Management in Business Networks; The Practice of Management; Sense-Making for Business Management
Management as a Continuing Process of InteractionShort-Term and Routine Interaction; Interaction for Structural Change; Interaction to Exploit and Develop Business Skills and Expertise; Management as an Integrative Function in Solution Development; Value Creation within an Episode; Value Creation within a Relationship; Value Creation Through Network Position; Management Through the Interaction Lens -- Living with Dualities; Management Skills and Capabilities; Value Measuring and Value Appropriation in Business Networks; Introduction; Value Measuring in an Interactive Network Context
Value Capturing in an Interactive Network ContextConclusion: Measuring and Capturing Interacted Values; Purchasing and Supply Management: On Strategic Roles and Supplier Interfaces; The Increasing Importance of Purchasing and Supply as a Management Field; Perspectives on PSM Over Time; The Development of PSM Practice; Strategic Issues in Purchasing and Supply Management; IMP Research on PSM; The Rationalisation Role and Supplier Interfaces; The Development Role and Supplier Interfaces; Structuring, Supplier Interfaces and the Interplay among Strategic Roles
Strategic Alternatives for Leveraging the Roles and InterfacesOrganising and Supplier Interfaces; Conclusions; New Business Development in Business Networks; Introduction; Challenges of Establishing a New Business in an Interactive Business Landscape; The Challenge of Relating -- Developing the Initial Business Relationships; Jointly Developing Solutions; Gaining a Friend and Acquiring a Face; Allocating Resources in Starting Up; The Challenge of Networking -- the Need to Cope with Multiple Relationships; Multiple Actors and Different Logics; A New Venture's Multiple Identities
Summary The base for this book is 40 years of research on business relationships between companies evidencing the interactive features of the contemporary business world that have important consequences for management, policy and research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2017)
Subject Business networks.
Strategic alliances (Business)
Business communication.
Business development companies.
Business strategy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Skills.
Business communication
Business development companies
Business networks
Strategic alliances (Business)
Corporate Network
Internationales Marketing
Form Electronic book
Author Håkansson, Håkan, 1947- editor.
Snehota, Ivan, editor.
ISBN 9781787145498
1787145492
9781787149717
1787149714