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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Authors: Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: Routledge
Publish year: 1989

Efficient technological strategy relies on an understanding of the networks, both formal and informal between suppliers, producers and customers. This book provides the first, detailed study of these cooperation profiles.