Formation and Early Growth of Business Webs Modular Product Systems in Network Markets /

• Main Author: Steiner, Florian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2005.
• Series: Information Age Economy
• Subjects: Business.; Marketing.; Organization.; Planning.; Management.; Industrial management.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; E-commerce.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; e-Commerce/e-business.; IT in Business.

Networks of firms have been in the focus of management research for several years. Recently, special attention has been paid to so-called business webs. Business webs are networks of firms which provide complements to a common product architecture. In the past, research focused on management issues...

Table of Contents:

• On Network Industries
• Business Webs: Decomposable, Modular Organisations
• Business Web Growth Cases
• Towards a Theory of Business Web Growth
• Conclusion.