Economics of Interfirm Networks

edited by Theresia Theurl

Book cover: Economics of Interfirm Networks

Extent: 290 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Business & Economics

Series: Okonomik der Kooperation

Series volume number: 4

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(December 2005)

ISBN: 9783161486012

Price: $58.00

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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.

Foreword 1. The Rationale for interfirm networks Oliver Williamson : Networks - Organizational Solutions to future challenges - Thomas Straubhaar : Globalization and cooperative business strategies - Jacques Santer : The Cooperative Initiative: A Constituting Element of the European Economy 2. The formation of interfirm networks Thomas Malone : The IT-Shaped Organization - Arnold Picot : Characteristics of virtual networks - Stefan Klein : The Cooperatives' Advantage: Stabilizing in a Changing World 3. Governance structures in interfirm networks Marco Becht : The Importance of Good Governance - Theresia Theurl : Between Corporate and Cooperative Governance - Helmut Dietl : Cooperative Net Governance: Organizing professional sports leagues 4. Managing the boundaries in interfirm networks Jorg Sydow : Forming and Managing networks - Tage Skjoett-Larsen : Problems of Creating Inter-Organizational Value Chains - Holger Kern : Slicing the Value Chain - Retail banking in the 21st century

  • Edited by Theresia Theurl