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The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.
List of contents
Franchising Networks.- Cooperatives.- Strategic Alliances.
About the author
Thomas Ehrmann §Studium der VWL und BWL und 1988 Promotion an der FU Berlin. 1988-1991 Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, 1992-1994 Senior Manager Price Waterhouse. Von 1995-1999 Bereichsleiter Strategie bei einem Telekommunikationsunternehmen. 1999 Habilitation an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Ab April 2000 Professor an der Westfälischen-Wilhelms Universität Münster im Fach Betriebswirtschaft. Leiter des Instituts für Unternehmensgründung und -entwicklung. Direktor des Internationalen Centrums für Franchising; Cooperation Münster sowie des Centrums für Unternehmensführung. Mitglied im Beirat der Deutschen Bahn AG.
Summary
The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.
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“Contributors, editors and authors, of this book have to be congratulated since they produced a very good text on the organization of interfirm networks … . It is a very complete work, very well written and providing a very agreeable reading, simultaneously rigorous and pedagogic, indispensable for academics and practitioners in the fields of economics, marketing and strategic management, accessible and interesting to broad crowds of readers.” (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance & Economic Sciences, Vol. 6 (2), June, 2016)
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"Contributors, editors and authors, of this book have to be congratulated since they produced a very good text on the organization of interfirm networks ... . It is a very complete work, very well written and providing a very agreeable reading, simultaneously rigorous and pedagogic, indispensable for academics and practitioners in the fields of economics, marketing and strategic management, accessible and interesting to broad crowds of readers." (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance & Economic Sciences, Vol. 6 (2), June, 2016)
