Authors: David Ford; Michael Redwood
This paper looks at two case studies to show that networks are not a new idea. Businesseshave always joined already existing networks of companies and relationships and operatedwithin them. Rather than companies creating or building networks in line with their individualstrategy, it is much more valid to say that “in the beginning was the network”. In this way, anycompany action can usefully be interpreted as an interactive process through which thosearound the company and the company itself adjust to changing network structureThe paper draws conclusions about management decision making and reaction in thiscontext.Keywords: networks, innovation, network evolution, leather, ice-industry, technology.
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Publish Year: 2005
Conference: Rotterdam, Netherlands (2005)