The Economics Of Interfirm Networks

Author : Tsutomu Watanabe,Iichiro Uesugi,Arito Ono
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784431553908

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The Economics of Interfirm Networks by Tsutomu Watanabe,Iichiro Uesugi,Arito Ono Pdf

This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks. The in-depth empirical research presented here is based on a massive transaction relationship database of approximately 400,000 Japanese firms. This volume, unlike others, focuses on the role of interfirm networks in three different fields: (1) macroeconomic activities, (2) economic geography and firm dynamics, and (3) firm–bank relationships. The database for this work is constructed in collaboration with Japan's largest credit research company, Teikoku Data Bank, and covers a substantial portion of Japanese firms with information on firms' transaction partners, shareholders, financial institutions, and other attributes, including their locations and performance. Networks prevail in many aspects of economic activities and play a major role in explaining a wide variety of economic phenomena from business cycles to knowledge spillovers, which has motivated economists to produce a number of excellent works. In the policy arena, there has been a growing concern on the vulnerabilities of networks based on the casual observation that idiosyncratic shocks on firms can be amplified through inter-firm connections and leads to a systemic crisis. Typical examples are the manufacturing supply-chain networks in the automobile and electronics industries which propagated regionally concentrated shocks (the Great East Japan Earthquake and floods in Thailand in 2011) into global ones. An abundance of theoretical literature on the formation and functions of networks is available already. This book breaks new ground, however, and provides an excellent opportunity for the reader to gain a more integrated understanding of the role of networks in the economy. The Economics of Interfirm Networks will be of special interest to economists and practitioners seeking empirical and quantitative knowledge on interfirm and firm–bank networks.

Author : Anna Grandori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134629909

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Interfirm Networks by Anna Grandori Pdf

This book examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness. Drawing on a variety of case studies the contributors present a balanced theoretical and empirical approach.

Author : Theresia Theurl
Publisher : Mohr Siebrek Ek
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3161486013

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Economics of Interfirm Networks by Theresia Theurl Pdf

Firms produce an increasing part of their value added in networks. Therefore, managing the boundaries of the firm is essential to the success of such interfirm networks. It has become obvious that firms as well as networks need rules for good governance. Developing and enforcing these rules is one of the tasks of the network management, which is one of the prerequisites for successfully operating networks. In this volume, well-known economists and organization research scholars analyze the many facets of interfirm cooperation.

Author : Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319101842

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Interfirm Networks by Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,Thomas Ehrmann,Georg Hendrikse Pdf

The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

Author : Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse,Marijana Srećković
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030292454

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Design and Management of Interfirm Networks by Josef Windsperger,Gérard Cliquet,George Hendrikse,Marijana Srećković Pdf

Interfirm networks include franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, public-private partnerships and new network forms in the digital economy. This book gathers the latest research studies that approach these networks – and the creation of innovation under the conditions of a complex, dynamic, knowledge-intensive and digital economy – from an interdisciplinary perspective. The studies, all of which were written by respected experts, explore how firms can improve their competitiveness by securing access to innovation, knowledge, complementary resources and capabilities otherwise not available to them. In addition, they highlight how, driven by an unpredictable environment, firms embedded in inter-organizational networks are increasingly transforming from co-operators to collaborators and valuable co-creators of innovation.

Author : Mark Casson,Marina Della Giusta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000124720875

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The Economics of Networks by Mark Casson,Marina Della Giusta Pdf

Networks have a widespread economic significance. They structure the way that market traders interact and configure relations within and between social groups, urban centres and nation states. This work on the economics of networks is suitable for researchers in microeconomics, spatial and business economics.

Author : Fabrizio Cafaggi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849809696

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Contractual Networks, Inter-firm Cooperation and Economic Growth by Fabrizio Cafaggi Pdf

This insightful book presents a legal and economic analysis of inter-firm cooperation through networks as an alternative to vertical integration. It examines comparatively various forms of collaboration, ranging from consortia to multiparty joint ventures and from franchising to dealerships. Collaboration among firms of different sizes helps to overcome numerousweaknesses of the modern western industrial systems. It permits the governing of vertical disintegration without increasing fragmentation and transaction costs and allows firms to benefit from resource complementarities, favoring division of labour. The contributing authors, primarily focusing on Europe and the US, address important ways in which legal systems provide a framework for inter-firm coordination. It is clear from the analysis that significant obstacles to collaboration still remain, and the authors call for legal reforms at European and Member States level.

Author : Lucio Biggiero,Robert Magnuszewski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031173899

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Inter-firm Networks by Lucio Biggiero,Robert Magnuszewski Pdf

This book examines the inter-firm networks created by interlock coordination through shared directors (inter-board) and managers (inter-department) at various levels: whole aggregate, core vs. peripheral companies, and distribution by country and sector. Presenting an empirical case study on all the limited liability or stock companies of the aerospace industry in the European Union and its interlock partners worldwide, the authors shed new light on these forms of coordination. Moreover, they reveal the relevance of shared managers’ coordination and hybrid manager-director interlocks. The book applies advanced statistical and social network analysis alike by combining firms’ attributes (e.g. standard economic-financial parameters) and topological indices for firms (e.g. centrality and cluster measures). By conducting the analysis at both the aggregate network level and the cluster or corporate group level, the authors show how extensive and intensive the interlock forms of coordination are, especially when dealing with shared managers. By testing seven hypotheses concerning the research stream on board interlocks and (more broadly) inter-firm networks, the study offers new insights into the role of the financial sector, on the relations between interlock coordination and firms’ performance, on the role of geographical, technological and organizational proximity, and on the relations between interlock coordination and firms’ size. As such, this book will appeal to scholars of organization studies, business and management studies, industrial and evolutionary economics, and economic sociology, as well as officers and policymakers at anti-trust regulation institutions.

Author : Robert Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000160536

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The Business of Networks by Robert Huggins Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The first book which brings together and interprets both the theoretical concepts associated with the study of networks in the business world, and the policy applications being applied to the practical building and development of such networks. It maps the changes in the culture of economic development policy that occurred in the UK during the 1990s, incorporating a detailed assessment of the contribution that the Training and Enterprise Councils made to business support policies. The book is published at a time when network and cluster building has risen to the top of economic development agendas not only in UK, but in many countries throughout the world. It offers the most detailed insight so far available into the structure, motivations and processes involved in developing business networks through institutional intervention. The book is relevant to anyone with an interest in business policy and theory.

Author : Su, Z. (Zhan),Poulin, Diane, 1950 Aug. 14-,Université Laval. Faculté des sciences de l'administration. Direction de la recherche,Chrysostome, Élie Virgile,Université Laval. Centre de service, d'orientation et de recherche sur la compétitivité internationale et l'ingénierie de l'entreprise réseau
Publisher : Québec : Faculté des sciences de l'administration de l'Université Laval, Direction de la recherche
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2895240698

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Inter-firm Cooperation Networks : a Historical Perspective by Su, Z. (Zhan),Poulin, Diane, 1950 Aug. 14-,Université Laval. Faculté des sciences de l'administration. Direction de la recherche,Chrysostome, Élie Virgile,Université Laval. Centre de service, d'orientation et de recherche sur la compétitivité internationale et l'ingénierie de l'entreprise réseau Pdf

Author : B. Nooteboom
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041532954X

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Inter-firm Collaboration, Learning and Networks by B. Nooteboom Pdf

Developments in technology and globalisation have led to an upsurge in inter-organizational relations. This book surveys the current field, connects differing perspectives and answers questions about who should collaborate, why, and how.

Author : Arch G. Woodside
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857243065

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Organizational Culture, Business-to-Business Relationships, and Interfirm Networks by Arch G. Woodside Pdf

Provides in-depth understanding about business-to-business (B2B) and organizational relationships. This title includes descriptions on how B2B networks form, function and develop and is for readers who want to delve into how B2B relationships actually work and, frequently, do not work.

Author : Stefan Klein,Angeliki Poulymenakou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540328841

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Managing Dynamic Networks by Stefan Klein,Angeliki Poulymenakou Pdf

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices.

Author : Charlie Karlsson,B”rje Johansson,Roger Stough
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1781958505

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Industrial Clusters and Inter-firm Networks by Charlie Karlsson,B”rje Johansson,Roger Stough Pdf

'This well-edited volume should be on the shelf of every regional development agency library. Its seventeen chapters written by 31 predominantly academic contributors are divided into four coherent sections: the first on cluster and network modelling, the next on empirical analysis, a third on case studies, finishing with two chapters on policy analysis and strategies.' - Tony Jackson, Journal of Economic Development This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of spatial industrial clusters and inter-firm networks. Given the prevailing political belief that clusters can be a major vehicle for economic development and growth, it is important to have a sound understanding of clusters and how they emerge, grow, eventually stagnate and disappear. It is also vital to know when and how to apply policy measures to support cluster development in order to increase economic welfare. This book illuminates both the theoretical and empirical issues relating to clusters and inter-firm networks, and presents a number of interesting case studies from a variety of different countries.

Author : Latif Adam
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3838320433

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The Economic Role of Inter-Firm Networks in the Development of Smes by Latif Adam Pdf

This book discusses not only issues involving the development of SMEs from the angle of SMEs' internal management, but also goes further to examine what are the determinants impacting on the efforts of SMIEs to develop and maintain long-term inter-firm networks, and to what extent and how have inter-firm networks contributed to the improvement in their performance. Thus, this book is important for academicians, university students, policy makers, and businessmen since it provides the first examination of the determinants and the economic role of inter-firm networks in the development of SMEs in the developing country, and is the first estimate of technological capabilities, competitiveness, and growth of SMEs in the developing country.