Managing Business Relationships

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By Hakan Hakansson and Lars-Erik Gadde and David Ford and Ivan Snehota

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Managing Business Relationships offers insights into the complexities of forming and maintaining productive business partnerships. Drawing on research from the field of business-to-business interactions, the authors explore strategies for improving collaboration, solving conflicts, and creating value within industry networks. This book is essential for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of inter-firm relationships in a competitive market environment.
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This book may appeal to you if you're keen on understanding the dynamics of business partnerships and wish to explore effective strategies for building and maintaining strong, mutually beneficial relationships within the business world. It's particularly beneficial for those interested in entrepreneurship, offering both theoretical insights and practical guidance for managing interactions with partners, suppliers, and clients.

Managing Business Relationships

* Enables students and managers to understand the reality of business networks and how to manage them * Updated with the IMP Group s latest thinking from research, consulting and teaching experience over the past five years * Includes case material from across Europe .

Description

No company is an island in the world of business. Each company is locked into a complex network of relationships with its customers, suppliers, and other counterparts. What happens in these relationships is critical to the success of any business. Managing a company's relationships and its position in the network is a central, but often misunderstood aspect of business.

Managing Business Relationships aims to help managers and students understand the reality of business networks and how to manage them. This new edition has been entirely rewritten to include the latest thinking and research from the IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) Group, and introduces new chapters on Intermediation in Business Networks, the Economics of Business Relationships, and the Practice of Business Networking.

Features:

Provides a structured way to understand business networks and their meaning for the practising manager.
Offers a complete analysis of management in different relationships including those with customers, suppliers, distributors, and development counterparts.
Presents a practical analysis of the problems and choices that managers face in developing and changing their relationships and a guide to the critical skills of business networking.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470721094

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 September 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 3rd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 256

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Business Strategy & Negotiation David Ford Hakan Hakansson Ivan Snehota Lars-Erik Gadde Non-Fiction

About the Author

David Ford is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath. His work involves examining how the relationships between companies develop and how they can be managed effectively. It also involves issues of technological development within and between companies. He is currently working as part of the team on the "Newmark" project. This study is looking at ways in which complex networks of companies operate and how companies behave within them.

Lars-Erik Gadde is Professor of industrial marketing at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. His research interest is focused on the exchange processes among companies in business networks. These processes are analysed from two perspectives. The first concerns purchasing behaviour and purchasing strategies on the buying side, while the second deals with distribution strategies and distribution system dynamics on the selling side.

Hakan Hakansson is Professor in International Management, Norwegian School of Management, BI, Oslo. He has been involved in a large number of different projects ranging from long term engagement (several years) to short term teaching sessions for companies such as ABB, Alcatel, Ericsson, Euroc, Gränges, IFL, Järnia, NCC, Nutek, SIAB, Skanska and others.

Ivan Snehota is Professor of Marketing at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. He initiated research focusing on international markets for industrial goods and became in 1976 one of the founders of an international research project on industrial marketing and purchasing (IMP). Since then he has dedicated much of his time to teaching in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses and resumed research related to market relationships.