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Practices for Network Management

In Search of Collaborative Advantage

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Overview

  • Presents a collection of 21 novel managerial tools for network and relationship management
  • Explores the limitations of network management
  • Follows a design science approach
  • Includes analysis and evaluation of the tools presented

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About this book

Presenting 17 tools developed through rigorous design science research, this book bridges the relevance gap within network management. In so doing, it proposes a novel system-framework and establishes a path towards a networks-as-practice view on inter-organizational relationships. The systems-framework builds on three institutionalized business practices: Networks-as-coordinated social systems, Networks-as-knowledge-creating platforms, and Networks-as-value-generating entities. Through these tools, Towards Relational Business Practices intends to propose a new managerial praxis and provoke new and improved frameworks and models for network management. 

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Networks-as-Coordinated Social Systems

  2. Networks-as-Knowledge-Creating Platforms

  3. Networks-as-Value-Generating Entities

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Jukka Vesalainen

  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland

    Katri Valkokari

  • Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland

    Magnus Hellström

About the editors

Jukka Vesalainen is Professor of Management and Organization at University of Vaasa, Finland, where his current research addresses networking and business relationships. He has published research articles in top international journals including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business & Industrial MarketingEntrepreneurship and Regional Development, and International Small Business Journal.

Katri Valkokari is a principal scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in the Business Ecosystems, Value Chains and Foresight research area. Over the past 15 years, she has carried out several business development projects concerning different SME networks. She has published several international and national articles on business networks, innovation management and sustainability.

Magnus Hellström is a Senior Lecturer and docent in industrial management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Magnus has over five years’ experience working within the engineering works industry. His research interests include modularity, industrial services, and business ecosystems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practices for Network Management

  • Book Subtitle: In Search of Collaborative Advantage

  • Editors: Jukka Vesalainen, Katri Valkokari, Magnus Hellström

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49649-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49648-1Published: 20 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84208-0Published: 20 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49649-8Published: 09 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Management, Organization, Entrepreneurship

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