Strategic Networks Learning to Compete

This book explores the creation of 'learning networks' and sheds light on how they function:- real versus virtual forms of interaction, collaboration versus competition in the learning process, and joint value creation versus individual value appropriation in networks. Written by international experts in the field of global strategy. Contributions have been selected for their insights and interdependence between organizational learning and networks. Looks at topics such as real versus virtual forms of interaction, collaboration versus competition in the learning process, and joint value creation versus individual value appropriation in networks.

Michael Gibbert is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Business Management at Bocconi University in Milan. Prior to joining the faculty at Bocconi, he held appointments at Stellenbosch, INSEAD, Yale, and St. Gallen, where he also studied for his Ph.D.

Thomas Durand is professor of business strategy at Ecole Centrale Paris where he heads the “Technology & Strategy » research lab. He is also Chairman of CM International, a management consultancy with 40 staff in offices in Paris, Cardiff and Madrid.

Notes on Contributors
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Foreword: Yves Doz
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Knowledge Types and Knowledge Management Strategies
Learning to Compete or Struggling to Survive? Objectives and Outcomes of Scale and Link Alliances
Teaching in Supplier Networks
On the Challenges of Buyer-Supplier Collaboration in Product Development Projects
Observing the Learning Process in an Interfirm Team
Consocia et impera: How French and Italian Fabric Producers Cooperate to Conquer the "Dominant Design" in the Fashion Industry
Online Social Networks and Knowledge Exchange
Bramble Bushes in a Thicket: Narrative and the Intangibles of Learning Networks
Competing and Collaborating in Networks: Is Organizing Just a Game
Networks, and Some Limits to Managing Them
Index
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