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Managing In Emergence: Capabilities For Influencing The Birth Of New Business Fields

Kristian Moller and Senja Svahn

The paper was published at the 19th IMP-conference in Lugano, Switzerland in 2003.

This paper deals with management challenges in emergent business networks in times of radical technological change. First, a framework describing the environment of emergent networks is proposed. Second, the processes which constitute the proposed phases of emergence are discussed. Finally, the core company-level tasks in each phase are identified and dynamic capabilities for managing these tasks are suggested. Key words: Business networks, dynamic capabilities, network management, emergence