Overview
- Presents cutting-edge research and best practices of cooperative and networking strategies in small business
- Provides cooperative strategy concepts and analytical techniques
- Covers topics such as green innovation, social commerce, and regional entrepreneurship
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Cooperation and networks is a fashionable topic. It is receiving increasing attention in popular management publications, as well as specialized academic journals. Cooperation between firms and industries is a means of leveraging and aggregating knowledge also generating direct benefits in terms of innovation, productivity and competitiveness. Various options and decisions madewithin the framework of strategic alliances may be identified and differentiated. For example, it has been argued that R&D cooperation between competing firms also facilitates the search for incremental efficiency gains and is thus a competitive advantage. In parallel with a theoretical acceptance of the importance of a sustained competitive advantage to formulate strategy, there is a growing understanding that cooperative and networking behavior among small firms is at the root of many success stories in today's small business management. This condition requires an effort to develop a study of both aspects of cooperation and networks as compatible, complementary facets of a unique reality. In short, the cooperative and networking relationships of a small business can be the source of its competitive advantage. Enhancement of local resources and capabilities for the generation and dissemination of knowledge is still an issue for defining public policies in many countries.
Featuring contributions covering such topics as green innovation, social commerce, university cooperation networks, and regional entrepreneurship, this book provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated study of cooperation and networks in small business that will be pertinent to students, academics, professionals, scholars, and policy makers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business
Editors: Marta Peris-Ortiz, João J. Ferreira
Series Title: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44509-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44508-3Published: 14 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83069-8Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44509-0Published: 03 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-5698
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Small Business, Innovation/Technology Management, Start-Ups/Venture Capital