Managing Dynamic Networks Organisational Perspectives of Technology Enabled Inter-firm Collaboration

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.Klein, Stefan is the author of 'Managing Dynamic Networks Organisational Perspectives of Technology Enabled Inter-firm Collaboration', published 2006 under ISBN 9783540253679 and ISBN 354025367X.