Business Relationships and Networks

Disruption, Crises and Rapid Responses
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98559-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

Business networks consist of interconnected business relationships that evolve over time. The main notion is that firms coordinate business activities and adapt their resources towards counterparts so that long-term business relationships are formed. From time to time, however, ongoing business between suppliers and customers is subject to unforeseen and uncontrollable events that cause sudden stops in business activities all over industries.

Bringing together contributions from scholars in the field of business relationships and networks, this book presents unique insights into how and when rapid responses can be possible in the challenging times following business disruption. It explores the various origins of business disruptions, identifying channels for more active and apt monitoring of business contexts by managers. Readers will gain contemporary and highly relevant knowledge on several aspects of the widespread impact of sudden stops in business. The chapters provide readers with individual and detailed accounts and conclusions about business discontinuity and place them within a cohesive common ground in business relationships and networks.

This edited volume will be a valuable resource for scholars across business disciplines, including business-to-business (B2B) marketing and organisational studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bengtson, Anna

Thilenius, Peter

Åberg, Susanne

Aberg, Susanne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing Abrupt Disruption of Business and Rapid Responses  Part I - Disruption in Business Networks  2. Exogenous Shock Events and Network Change Processes: A Scenario Framework  3. Abrupt Interruption of Business in The Forest Sector: The Case of African Swine Fever in Sweden  4. Disruptions in Sustainability-Led Business Endeavours  5. Managing Unexpected Disruptions in Large-Scale Business Projects  6. Corporate Acquisitions as Disruptive Events? Towards An Event-Centred Analysis of Industry Dynamics  Part II - Rapid Relationship Responses  7. Can You Buy a Business Relationship? The Role of Actor Identity  8. Digital Transformation and Interaction Interruption in Business-To-Business Relationships  9. Expected, Yet Potentially Abrupt Endings: Exploring Buyer-Supplier Relationship Dynamics in the Public Procurement Process  10. Dissolution of Triads: Effects on a Focal Business Relationship  11. On The Duality of Business-To-Business Relationships’ Sudden Endings  12. After the Storm: What Do We Know About Hiatus and the Following Recurring?

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Bengtson is Professor of Business Studies, especially industrial marketing, in the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Susanne Åberg is Associate Professor of Business Studies, especially industrial marketing, in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Peter Thilenius is Professor in Department of Business Studies, especially international business, at Uppsala University, Sweden.