Organizational culture, business-to-business relationships, and interfirm networks / edited by Arch G. Woodside.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woodside, Arch G.

Series:

Advances in business marketing & purchasing ; v. 16.

Advances in business marketing and purchasing, 1069-0964 ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business networks.

Strategic alliances (Business).

Interorganizational relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Organizational Culture, Business-to-Business Relationships, and Interfirm Networks provides deep understanding about business-to-business and organizational relationships. Studies in this volume identify real-life relationship paradoxes and explain how firms manage, not solve, these paradoxes. Extended chapter lengths allow for a deeper analysis into the structures and dynamics of business relationships. Two research reports by Sergio Biggemann present three-years of intensive face-to-face data collection on how interfirm relations form, operate, and change; Biggemans reports include unedited direct quotes from suppliers, focal firms, and customers on their interfirm relationshipsthese studies provide a deep understanding of quality relationships. In three separate but related reports Sylvie Laforet shows that making mistakes is inherent in organizational innovationsunderstanding how organizations work through such mistakes is an important key to understanding success versus failure in innovation outcomes. Volume 16 is for readers who want to go deep into how B2B relationships actually work, and frequently, do not work.

Contents:

ch. 1. Introduction : theory and practice of organizational culture, B2B relationships, and interfirm networks / Arch G. Woodside

ch. 2. Discourses in organizational culture : bank managers and employees perceived relationships and performance / Farah Asif

ch. 3. Modeling the structure of business-to-business relationships / Sergio Biggemann

ch. 4. Understanding and modeling the dynamics of business-to-business relationships / Sergio Biggemann

ch. 5. Structure and dynamics of business-to-business relationships / Sergio Biggemann

ch. 6. Organizational innovation and outcomes in SMEs / Sylvie Laforet

ch. 7. Anatomy of relationship significance : a critical realist exploration / Filipe J. Sousa, Luis M. de Castro

ch. 8. Markets-as-networks theory : a review / Filipe J. Sousa

ch. 9. Metatheories in research : positivism, postmodernism, and critical realism / Filipe J. Sousa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612752988

9781282752986

1282752987

9780857243065

0857243063

OCLC:

664699652