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.
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Design and Management of Interfirm Networks: An Introduction |
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Part I Franchise Networks |
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Innovation Climate in Plural Form Franchise Networks: The Mediator Role of Mutual Learning |
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They Are Jolly Good Fellows! A Framework for Antecedents and Consequences of Peer Trust in Franchise Networks |
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Business Model Innovation in Franchising: Rethinking the Franchising Taxonomy |
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Why Adopt Microfranchising? Evidence from Brazil on an Organizational Innovation Designed to Face New Challenges |
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Strategic CSR and the Competitive Advantage of Franchise Firms |
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Institutional Influences of Professional Associations and Franchise Organizations on Competitiveness of the Healthcare Clinics |
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Guillermo Navarro Sanfelix |
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Management of Franchising Networks: Seven Principles for Fair Franchise Advisory Councils |
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Decision Model to Locate a Franchisee Applied to a Fast-Food Restaurant |
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Jose Daniel Garcia-Castro |
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Horizon and Portfolio Investment Constraints in Agricultural Cooperatives |
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Member Heterogeneity and Exit |
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Cooperatives in Modern Food Supply Chains: A Case Study of the Malt Barley Sector in Ethiopia |
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Hybrids in the French Apple Industry: Opportunistic and Cognitive Differences Between a Cooperative and an Investor-Owned Group |
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Collocation for Supplier-Client Knowledge-Based Coordination: Niche Positioning, Task Complexity, and Comparative Costs |
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Dealing with the Post-Honeymoon Blues: Tensions and Governance in Industry-University Alliances |
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The Co-evolution of Clusters and the Role of Trans-local Linkages |
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The Effects of Cluster Cooperation as a Source of Company Value Creation |
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Entering a Foreign Market: Exports, FDI or Strategic Alliance? |
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Public-Private Partnerships in Latin America: Evidences from Healthcare Networks |
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Gérard Cliquet is emeritus professor at the University of Rennes 1 (France) where he was a professor of marketing and retailing at the School of Business Administration (IGR-IAE). He has published 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 20 books as an author or editor on several topics, including geomarketing, retailing, franchising, intercultural marketing, and retail branding. George Hendrikse is full professor in Economics of Organizations at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands). His research and teaching focus is on the internal and industrial organization of enterprises, with a special interest in cooperatives. He has published 15 books, more than 125 scholarly articles, and supervised 14 PhD theses. Marijana Srekovi is senior scientist at the Department of Industrial Building and Interdisciplinary Planning, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien, Austria). She holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences from TU Wien, and her current research deals with innovation and networks, capabilities, and business models in the digital economy. Josef Windsperger is professor of Organization and Management at the University of Vienna (Austria). His research and teaching focus is on the governance of interfirm networks and strategy of the international firm. His major publications are in economics and management of networks, such as franchising, joint ventures and clusters, and the theory of the firm.
