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. This book should be of interest to students and researchers in business studies, management studies etc.

Corporate Technological Behaviour: Co-Operation and Networks

Science & Math

Håkansson, Håkan

Technology

Routledge& Kegan Paul

In this book, the story of how IKEA and its paper producers struggled to solve the problem of creating environmentally friendly paper constitutes the foundation of a discussion of technological development. Through a detailed analysis of the case-study, the authors demonstrate the necessity of including social, technological and economical factors when dealing with such issues. Focusing on the interactive aspects of commercial and technological development, they examine how new solutions are developed and shaped in relation to the different companies and organizations involved. They investigate resources in terms of how they are related and built into other resources through historical and contemporary interaction processes. Their overall emphasis is on dealing with the issue of how different, closely and distantly related companies and organizations are affected when resources are developed.

Managing Technological Development: IKEA, the environment and technology (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

Business & Money

Waluszewski, Alexandra

Economics

Routledge

The new edition of this widely used business marketing text has been completely revised and rewritten. The Business Marketing Course provides a comprehensive insight into business marketing in a compact and accessible format that provides the ideal foundation for courses on business or industrial marketing. 
The new edition concentrates on the reality facing business marketers operating in complex and dynamic business networks. The book provides a structured approach to both technology and the development of the marketer’s offerings as well as an expanded guide on how to analyse business networks and customers and how to develop marketing strategy. The book is essential reading for students who are studying business markets. It is also an excellent guide for all managers who would like a clearer understanding of the complexity networks in which they operate.

The Business Marketing Course: Managing in Complex Networks

Ford, David

Gadde, Lars-Erik

Snehota, Ivan

Marketing & Sales

wiley

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 edition of Managing Business Relationships aims to help managers and students understand the reality of business networks and how to manage in them. It has been entirely rewritten to include the latest thinking and research from the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group and includes new chapters on Intermediation in Business Networks, the Economics of Business Relationships and the Practice of Business Networking. Features: • Provides a structured way to understand business networks and their meaning for the practicing manager. • Offers a complete analysis of management in different relationships including those with customers, suppliers, distributors and development counterparts. • Presents a practical analysis of the problems and choices that managers face in developing and changing their relationships and a guide to the critical skills of business networking.

Managing Business Relationships

Management & Leadership

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. 
Business in Networks is strongly grounded in empirical research and illustrated throughout with case examples. The book analyses the complex network of interdependencies that exist between companies and which determine their characteristics. It fully analyses the process of interaction through which companies and networks evolve and are transformed. Specifically, the book thoroughly examines the following: <ul>
<li>The dynamics and interrelatedness of the business landscape</li> <li>Interaction as the basic business process</li> <li>Business development in time and network space</li> <li>The nature of management in an interactive world</li> <li>The implications for policy-makers of the networked business landscape</li> </ul>

Business in Networks

Ford, David I

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 network has become the critical task on which a company's very existence stands or falls. This new edition of Managing Business Relationships aims to help managers and students understand the reality of business networks and how to manage in them. It has been entirely rewritten to include the latest thinking and research from the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group. The book * provides a structured way to understand business networks and their effect on the practicing manager. * offers a complete analysis of management in different relationships including those with suppliers, customers, distributors and development partners. * includes a brand new and easy to understand model of managing in networks. This book is vital reading for students of business marketing, purchasing, business networks and relationship management at the MBA and final year undergraduate level. It will also be a valuable resource for all managers operating in business markets, including those in purchasing, marketing, technical development and distribution.

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

'The Business Marketing Course' has been written by a team of authors, led by David Ford, from the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group. It is the first time that an introductory level textbook on business marketing has been developed based on the IMP approach. According to David Ford, business marketing is the task of selecting, developing and managing customer relationships for advantage in line with the skills, resources, strategy and objectives of both the supplier and customer companies.  Business marketing (or industrial marketing as it was formerly called) involves the marketing of products and services to commercial enterprises, governments and other not-for-profit institutions for use in the products they, in turn, produce.

Brown, Stephen J.

Ritter, Thomas

Berthon, Pierre

Naudé, Peter

The aim of this book is to encapsulate the research and understanding of the authors about the problems of companies operating in business markets, in a form that will excite the interest and assist the "thinking manager" and the current MBA student. The authors are all members of the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group and have carried out a number of wide-ranging studies into the complex problems that companies have in managing their relationships with customers, suppliers and other partners in the business markets. Managing Business Relationship will provide the reader with a better understanding of the reality of business markets and the nature of strategy in these markets.

Turnbull, Peter

WILSON, David

Lundgren, Anders

Managing Technological Development

Corporate Technological Behaviour (Routledge Revivals): Co-opertation and Networks

Efficient technological strategy is an increasingly important element in industrial profitability. An understanding of networks – the formal and informal web of contacts between suppliers, producers and customers – is vital to the application of such strategy. In this book, first published in 1989, Håkan Håkansson brings together theory and practice to provide the first comprehensive and detailed study of technological development in companies, and the associated interactions with other companies and organizations. This book is ideal for students of business.

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Corporate Technological Behaviour: Co-Operation and Networks

Managing Technological Development: IKEA, the environment and technology (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

The Business Marketing Course: Managing in Complex Networks

Managing Business Relationships

Business in Networks

Managing Business Relationships

The Business Marketing Course: Managing in Complex Networks

Managing Business Relationships

Managing Technological Development

Corporate Technological Behaviour (Routledge Revivals): Co-opertation and Networks