Business Relating Business: Managing Organisational Relations and Networks

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2010 - Business & Economics - 295 pages
This is a most informative, comprehensive, and well-written book. It is full of interesting detail, and the analysis though involving many complex ideas is presented in a coherent and logical style that ensures the reader s interest in retained throughout
 

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relationships and networks are us
1
1 The nature and role of relations and networks in business
7
specialisation and the economics of insourcing and outsourcing
29
value creation and innovation
67
establishing and developing business relations and networks
88
typologies of business relations
111
managing and being managed in business relations and networks
141
the extended enterprise and softassembled strategies
184
evolving evolvable relations and networks
222
9 Reinventing the future of business relations and networks
255
Bibliography
271
Index
287
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Ian Wilkinson, University of Sydney Business School, Australia

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