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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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Managing Business Relationships, 2nd Edition

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Authors: David Ford, Håkan Håkansson, Lars-Erik Gadde, Ivan Snehota
Publisher: John Wiley
Publish year: 2003

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No company can be an island in today's business world. Each one is locked into a complex network of relationships with suppliers, customers and other business partners. To be effective, managers within companies must constantly assess these relationships and the intentions, actions and reactions of their counterparts within them. Indeed, managing its relationships and its position in the business ...

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Buying Business Services

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Authors: Bjorn Axelsson, Finn Wynstra
Publisher: Wiley
Publish year: 2002

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Using the A-R-A model, Axelsson and Wynstra discuss buyer-supplier relations in business services, and the implications for handling purchasing issues in such situations.

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Critical Perspectives on Internationalisation

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Authors: Virpi Havila, Mats Forsgren, Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: Pergamon
Publish year: 2002

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The internationalization of business has accelerated during the post-war period and particularly in the 1990s. At the same time, research on international business has grown considerably. The early efforts in the 1950s have been followed by a vast number of research projects all over the world attempting to understand and explain the processes and problems of internationalization. The aim of this ...

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Managing Technological Development. IKEA, the environment and technology

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Authors: Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski
Publisher: Routledge
Publish year: 2002

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What happens when one of the worlds? largest buyers of catalogue paper, IKEA, realises that the paper it uses contradicts the demands of prominent environmental groups?

How do the producers of catalogue paper react, when IKEA demands an environmentally friendly ?green? catalogue paper, requiring the development of new production processes for an entirely new product?

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The Business Marketing Course: Managing in Complex Networks

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Authors: David Ford, Pierre Berthon, Stephen Brown, Lars-Erik Gadde, Peter Naudé, Thomas Ritter, Ivan Snehota, Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: Wiley
Publish year: 2002

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The Business Marketing Course gives an excellent insight into understanding and managing business markets. The book provides the ideal foundation for a one semester or ten lecture course in business or industrial marketing. the author team, led by david ford, offers students an easily accessible introduction to business marketing. The Business Marketing Course is based on the conceptual structure ...

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Supply Network Strategies

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Authors: Lars-Erik Gadde, Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publish year: 2001

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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 Supply Network Strategies, Gadde & Hekansson examine the supply side of companies from a network perspective. Supp...

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Understanding Business Marketing and Purchasing

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Authors: David Ford
Publish year: 2001

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Business marketing and business markets have been neglected by writers on marketing and marketing strategy. Perhaps it is because they lack the glamour of superficial excitement of consumer marketing and advertising. Business marketing has subsisted on ideas that have been borrowed from consumer marketing and these have restricted our understanding of what really happens in the area. Understanding...

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Business network learning

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Authors: Jan Johansson, Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Publish year: 2000

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Emerging global markets and rapid technological development make strong demands on the ability of companies to develop and utilize knowledge. In order to handle the knowledge management problem firms have to search for new collaborative ways of organizing internationalization and technical development. This is reflected in a growing interest among both businessmen and academics in business network...

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Managing Business Relationships

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Authors: David Ford, Lars-Erik Gadde, Håkan Håkansson, Anders Lundgren, Peter Turnball, David Wilson, Ivan Snehota
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publish year: 1998

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No company can be an island in today's business environment. All firms are locked into a complex network of relationships with their suppliers, customers and other business partners. The management of these relationships is a critical task on which a company's very existence depends. Over the past twenty years, members of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group have carried out many wide-ran...

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Network Dynamics in International Marketing

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Authors: Peter Naudé, Peter Turnbull
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Publish year: 1998

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This work aims to reflect the current thinking in the growing area of relationship marketing, and the articles have been chosen to reflect the way in which the subject matter has matured and developed. While the articles do cover the three areas of interactions, networks and relationships, this book goes further in the way in which these topics are covered. The chapters include theoretical develop...

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Organising Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries

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Authors: Anna Dubois
Publisher: Routledge
Publish year: 1998

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This book is an important and stimulating analysis of how industrial activity can be organized efficiently when the work is divided across different firms.

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Relationships and Networks in International Markets

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Authors: Hans Gemuenden, Thomas Ritter, Achim Walter
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Publish year: 1997

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This volume is intended to address the growing scope for the exchange, discussion and development of ideas on 'relationship marketing', and deals with major developments in international marketing from a relationship and network perspective, representing a valuable resource for all researchers in the area of industrial and service marketing, and for all practitioners responsible for the initiation...

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Corporate Technological Behaviour: Co-operation and Networks

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Authors: Håkan Håkansson
Publisher: Routledge
Publish year: 1989

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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.

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EVALUATING MARKETING ACTIONS AND OUTCOMES, Advances in Business Marketing & Purchasing, 12

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Editors: Arch Woodside
Publisher: JAI Press (Imprint of Elsevier)
Publish year: 0

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FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND EXECUTIVE THINKING
Adopting the following meta-thinking view is useful. Executive thinking differs fundamentally from scientific thinking in at least three ways (cf. Kozak, 1996). First, scientists (e.g. academic researchers) get to choose the problem, whereas in organizations, the problems (and symptoms of problems) are often thrust upon the e...

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