This book highlights cutting-edge research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, offering new theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances. Further, it presents a strategic group perspective on franchisers and discusses both social entrepreneurship issues in franchising and franchising strategies for Indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia. Lastly, it offers a dynamic capabilities approach to alliance portfolio management and analyses the antecedents of the transitions taking place in the lifecycles of alliances.
1.Management and Governance of Networks: An Introduction.- PartI:
FRANCHISING.- 2.Strategic Groups in the French Franchising Sector.- 3.Control
and Performance in Franchising Networks.- 4.Beyond Main Street: Franchising
Strategies for Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Australia.- 5.Social
Entrepreneurship and Franchising: A Panacea for Emerging Countries? The Case
of Algeria.- 6.Franchising in the Education Sector: How do Pakistani
Customers Perceive this New Phenomenon?.- PartII: COOPERATIVES.- 7.Profiling
the Natural Food Cooperative Members: Strategic Implications in Terms of
Market Positioning and Governance.- 8.Farmer Cooperatives as Systems of
Attributes: An Analysis of Ownership and In-vestment Complementarities.-
9.Toward an Updated Typology of U.S. Farmer Cooperatives: Survey Evidence of
Recent Hybrid Ownership Restructuring.- 10.Innovation in Cooperatively
Organized Breeding Networks Analysis of Cluster Structures in Dairy Cattle
Breeding in Germany.- 11.Uniformity in Collective Entrepreneurship: The Case
of Food Retail Cooperatives in France.- 12.Characterizing Cooperatives in
China.- 13.Cooperatives in Kyrgyzstan: Findings from a Survey of Cooperatives
and Users.- Part III: STRATEGIC ALLIANCES.- 14.Alliance Portfolio Management:
A Model based on Dynamic Capabilities.- 15.The Antecedents of Relationship
Phase Affect in Alliances.- 16.Food Safety Management through the Lens of
Hybrids: The Case of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Shippers.
George Hendrikse is professor in economics of organizations at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands.Gérard Cliquet is professor of retailing at the School of Business Administration (IGR-IAE), University of Rennes 1, France
Thomas Ehrmann is professor of strategic management at the University of Münster, Germany.
Josef Windsperger is professor of organization and management at the Department of Management, University of Vienna, Austria.
