TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steiner,Florian
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Formation and Early Growth of Business Webs: Modular Product Systems in Network Markets 
T2  - Information Age Economy
SN  - 9783790816150
AV  - HD28-70 
U1  - 658.1 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Physica-Verlag HD
KW  - Business
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Organization
KW  - Planning
KW  - Management
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Data processing
KW  - E-commerce
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - Innovation/Technology Management
KW  - e-Commerce/e-business
KW  - IT in Business
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - On Network Industries -- Business Webs: Decomposable, Modular Organisations -- Business Web Growth Cases -- Towards a Theory of Business Web Growth -- Conclusion
N2  - 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 of such webs but neglected the important question of how they actually came into being. The present book explicitly examines the formation and early growth of business webs. The author illustrates the early growth phases with two in-depth cases of the formation of the wireless internet ecosystem i-mode and the leading person-to-person online auction platform eBay. The book uncovers the contingencies under which the establishment of business webs is likely to succeed. Business researchers will benefit from the theoretical framework, while interested business managers will find explanations and advice for establishing a business web
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