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In this section you will find information about some of the books in which IMP Group research projects are published (we also offer some of these for direct download in PDF-format).as well as books which relate to different aspects of this research. If you are looking for a particular book, you may use the textbox below for conducting a search.

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Business in Networks

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Authors: Håkan Håkansson, David Ford, Lars-Erik Gadde, Ivan Snehota, Alexandra Walusewski
Publisher: John Wiley
Publish year: 2009

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This seminal book, based on 30 years of research, provides a radical insight into the reality of the business landscape and the operations and management of companies within it. The book challenges orthodox ideas of the business market and business management and presents a comprehensive analysis of the structure and process of business and the tasks that managers and policy-makers face.
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Developing Relationships in Business Networks

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Editors: Håkan Håkansson, Ivan Snehota
Publisher: Routledge
Publish year: 1995

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This book is the first to apply the network approach to the analysis of business relationships in a global context. Drawing on a wide variety of international case. studies, a `network approach' is developed, giving rise to far-reaching theoretical and practical managerial insights and a different way of conceptualizing companies within markets. New angles emerge on traditional problems of busines...

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International Marketing and Purchasing of Industrial Goods

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Editors: Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: John Wiley
Publish year: 1982

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This book presents a new approach to industrial marketing and purchasing based on a research project carried out in five European countries. The book, however, is not a complete and final report of the project. It will be followed by others.
The book ought to be of interest both to researchers and managers. It presents an alternative theoretical approach but is also highly empirical. The ma...

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Controversies in Healthcare Innovation: Service, Technology and Organization

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Editors: Thomas Hoholm, Antonella La Rocca, Margunn Aanestad
Publisher: Springer
Publish year: 2018

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This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging. While, in the heat of action, controversies may be seen as barriers to innovation, observations reported in this volume point to controversies also having an energizing role. Students and academics studying innovation, organization, and h...

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The Internationalisation Maturity of the Firm. A Business Relationships Perspective

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Editors: Krzysztof Fonfara, Ł ukasz Mał ys, Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publish year: 2018

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In the 21st century, even small firms can reach customers located in different, often remote, parts of the world. In fact, internationalisation has become a common phenomenon that affects the majority of companies worldwide. Recent research emphasises that there are numerous determinants of a company’s competitive advantage in the international business environment, including product quality, pric...

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Network Embeddedness. Examining the Effect on Business Performance and Internationalization

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Authors: Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek
Publisher: Palgrave McMillan
Publish year: 2017

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The book systematizes the concepts of business relationships and network embeddedness, taking a new approach to internationalization, relevant for the global economy. It reflects the growing importance of network internationalization theory and explores the impact of embeddedness in domestic and foreign relationships on a company’s performance. The author questions the validity of the distinction ...

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No Business is an Island: Making Sense of the Interactive Business World

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Authors: Håkan Håkansson, Ivan Snehota
Publisher: Emerald
Publish year: 2017

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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.

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Starting Up in Business Networks - Why Relationships Matter in Entrepreneurship

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Editors: L. Aaboen, A. La Rocca, F. Lind, A. Perna, T. Shih
Publisher: Palgrave McMillan
Publish year: 2017

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This book offers a novel perspective on starting-up new business ventures through examining the process by which they become part of the existing business environment. The book highlights the importance of inter-organizational business relationships. Asserting that new ventures need to interact and connect with customers and suppliers, alongside policy actors and universities, Starting up in Busin...

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CRM Systems in Industrial Companies. Intra- and Inter-Organizational Effects

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Authors: Andrea Perna, Enrico Baraldi
Publisher: Palgrave McMillan
Publish year: 2014

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This book aims to contribute new knowledge on the CRM (Customer Relationship

Management) topic in the field of industrial marketing. To achieve this purpose, the book

investigates the processes behind the development, implementation, embedding and use of

CRM. Today CRM appears to be a “buzzword” in the academic literature. In fact, CRM can

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Business-to-Business Marketing

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Authors: Philippe Malaval, Christophe Bénaroya
Publisher: De Boeck
Publish year: 2013

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“Business to Business Marketing” is the reference handbook
for years in the French speaking countries. It encompasses
the diverse BtoB contexts and combines the most
recent academic research to the best business practices.
Hence it is an operational guide to better adapt the marketing
techniques and tools to professional targets. Written
by experts, Busine...

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Managing Business Relationships (3rd ed)

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Authors: David Ford, Lars-Erik Gadde, Håkan Håkansson, Ivan Snehota
Publisher: John Wiley
Publish year: 2011

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No company is an island in the world of business. Each company is locked into a complex network of relationships with its customers, suppliers and other counterparts. What happens in these relationships is critical to the success of any business. Managing a company's relationships and its position in the network is a central, but often misunderstood aspect of business.

This new edi...

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Business Relationships and Corporate Nature and Scope: A Critical Realist Analysis

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Authors: Filipe J. Sousa
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Publish year: 2010

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The significance of business relationships (i.e., the impact of buyer-seller relationships on corporate survival and growth) is a notorious feature of the business world. Whenever that significance is touched upon by scholars and researchers, analytical and empirical emphasis is normally put on the rewarding functions performed by business relationships and the largely positive outcomes appropriat...

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Supply Network strategies 2:nd edition

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Authors: Lars-Erik Gadde, Håkan Håkansson, Göran Persson
Publisher: John Wiley
Publish year: 2010

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Supply Network Strategies deals with how companies activate relationships with suppliers in order to become more efficient and innovative. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on the ways in which these relationships link companies in supply chains and networks. In this substantially revised, new edition, the authors examine the supply side of companies from a network perspective.<...

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Use of Science and Technology in Business Exploring the Impact of Using Activity for Systems, Organizations, and People

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Editors: Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski, Frans Prenkert, Enrico Baraldi
Publisher: Emarald
Publish year: 2009

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This book comprises a variety of examples of the use of science and technology in business, ranging from early computer use in the U.S. insurance industry to the present use of information technology in the Swedish furniture industry; from the classic UK fish and chip shop's use of white fish to Heathrow's Terminal 5-project; from new fishing net fibers to the cooling of chocolate ...

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Business Relating Business: Managing Organisational Relations and Networks

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Authors: Ian Wilkinson
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Publish year: 2008

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Business performance depends on more than the characteristics and quality of the individual firm; it depends on the way a firm is connected directly and indirectly to other firms and organizations stretching over industry, technological and national boundaries. This is ever more so in an increasingly internationalized world where firms rely on key inputs from firms spread around the globe and ser...

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Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry

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Editors: Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski
Publisher: Routledge
Publish year: 2007

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Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of 'knowledge'.
Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson and Waluszewski invite the business-minded reader to consider the costs of adopting new knowle...

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Business Market Management: Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value

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Authors: James Anderson, James Narus
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Publish year: 2004

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Significant developments in the second edition of Business Market Management:

Detailed discussion of customer value management as a progressive, practical approach to deliver superior value to targeted market segments and customer firms and get an equitable return on the value delivered. Customer value management relies on building customer value models to gain an understanding of ...

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Customer Relationship Management: Concepts and Tools

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Authors: Francis Buttle
Publisher: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Publish year: 2004

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Customer Relationship Management: Concepts and Tools book was written to meet a perceived need in the CRM literature. Most CRM books are either produced by, or represent the interests of, software vendors or CRM consultants. This book, however, sets out to be an impartial, academically independent analysis and review of the theory and practice of CRM. It is written as a textbook, not a sales pitc...

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Rethinking Marketing: Developing a New Understanding of Markets

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Authors: Håkan Håkansson, Debbie Harrison, Alexandra Waluszewski
Publisher: Wiley
Publish year: 2004

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This book is the result of a seminar in Spring 2003 that brought together senior marketing Professors from both Europe and the US. The seminar is part of project funded for 4 - 5 years to discuss the future of marketing. Three basic issues are addressed: How should we look at the market and its different forms, given the existence of dynamics? How should we look upon the exchange between market pl...

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Internacionalização e Redes de Empresas

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Publisher: Editorial Verbo
Publish year: 2003

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No actual contexto mundial têm sido visíveis alterações em larga escala resultantes de progressos nos domínios das tecnologias de informação, das comunicações e dos transportes, da liberalização progressiva do comércio internacional e dos movimentos de capitais, bem como da consolidação de processos de integração económica. Consequentemente, a visão dos negócios tem-se pautado por uma perspectiva ...

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