Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices.
Author(s): Stefan Klein, Angeliki Poulymenakou
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 308
354025367X......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 5
Part I: Framing Inter-firm Network Management......Page 9
1 Networks as Orchestrations: Management in IT-enabled Inter-firm Collaborations......Page 10
2 Network Management Framework......Page 23
Part II: Elaboration on Network Management – Core Themes in
Select Industry Settings......Page 73
3 Connecting Company Strategy and Network Identity......Page 74
4 Institutional Design of Mixed-mode Electronic Marketplaces......Page 97
5 Portfolio Management of R&D Collaborations in Mobile Commerce......Page 116
6 The Role of Social Capital in Managing Relationships with IT Suppliers - A Case Study in Electronic Commerce......Page 127
7 The Influence of Power Relations on Interorganisational Identification in Buyer-Supplier Relationships of the Automotive Industry......Page 169
8 Performance Measurement in Supply Chain Networks: The case of fast moving consumer goods......Page 212
9 Examining the Emerging Dynamics of an Information Infrastructure: The case of introducing a web-based collaboration platform in the construction industry......Page 239
10 Unraveling the Virtual University: The Case of eMaster Postgraduate programme......Page 259
Part III: Conclusions......Page 280
11 Organizing Principles for Inter-firm Networks......Page 281
