Business Networks and Cooperation in International Business Relationships

2015 ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desirée Blankenburg Holm ◽  
Kent Eriksson ◽  
Jan Johanson
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Relationships

‘Grieved in My Soul that I Suffered You to Depart from Me’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nat Cutter
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
International Business ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Living Together

Using a large, little-known collection of letters from the English consulate in Tunis, this paper examines the environmental pressures that shaped English communal life in the early modern Maghreb. Living together in single ‘English houses’ in the midst of Muslim-dominated cities, merchants, consuls and servants created surrogate families within their households. These ‘families’ provided companionship, guidance and financial success. Far from home, traders established dynamic local and international business networks, formed deep personal and business relationships with their housemates, and protected themselves and the more vulnerable members of their communities from perceived moral, religious and physical harm.

Leveraging Internet capabilities for international business relationships: a comparison between Australian, Chilean and Taiwanese exporting SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Mathews ◽  
Keith J. Perks ◽  
Constanza Bianchi ◽  
Hsiu-Li Chen ◽  
Charmaine Glavas
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how Internet capabilities influence international business relationships using the resource-based view and capabilities perspective. Many studies highlight the importance of the Internet in helping smaller firms internationalize. However, few studies actually test how this is happening. The central purpose of this research was to examine and test the impact of Internet capabilities on international information availability, international strategic orientation and international business relationships in a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Australia, Chile and Taiwan.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses a structural equation modeling process so as to test the Internet capabilities on international business networks. The empirical research is based on an analysis of a sample of internationalizing SMEs in three export-intensive markets in Australia (215), Chile (204) and Taiwan (130) to test a conceptual model.FindingsThe results demonstrate that Internet capabilities have a distinct effect on the development of international business relationships for SMEs in the three countries. That is, Internet capabilities have a positive impact on a firm's international business relationships, but this varies across Australian and Taiwanese and Chilean SMEs.Originality/valueThese studies give empirical validation on the way in which smaller firms are using Internet capabilities for leveraging networks in internationalization and how this varies across countries. The results demonstrate that Internet capabilities have a distinct and positive impact on the development of international business relationships for SMEs in the three countries. However, there are specific differences between countries in how the Internet is being leveraged for the development of international business networks. Something currently not highlighted in the body of knowledge.

Business Networks and Cooperation in International Business Relationships

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1033-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desirée Blankenburg Holm ◽  
Kent Eriksson ◽  
Jan Johanson
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Relationships

Symbiotic International Business Networks: Collaboration between Small and Large Firms

2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Etemad ◽  
Richard W. Wright ◽  
Leo Paul Dana
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Large Firms

Social Impact of Collaborative Services to Maintain Electronic Business Relationships

2011 ◽  
pp. 2011-2040
Author(s):  
Stefan Klink ◽  
Peter Weiß
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Business Partner ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Collaborative Structures

This chapter looks at the impact and opportunities of semantic technologies and Web services to business relationships and how social Semantic Web techniques foster e-business and collaborative networks in many dimensions. For this the authors follow the vision to support collaborative services for business relationship management within semantic services. Based on a newly approach for business partner management with ontologies in large business communities, the chapter elaborates the conceptual framework for the design and implementation of collaborative services. The often postulated adaptiveness and intelligence of novel collaborative structures, foremost collaborative networks, require new approaches to deal with the increasing difficulty to cope with the resulting complexity of relational ties in communities and business networks. This research strives to leverage the capabilities to deal with large number of business relationships. The chapter formulates a vision based on three stages developing digital business ecosystems. Semantic Web technologies, mainly modelling business partner profiles (BPP) with ontology, combined with sound techniques of information retrieval and selected concepts and methods of social network analysis build the conceptual framework. On this basis, a newly approach is elaborated which offers support for communication processes and complex interactions of business entities in collaborative spaces.

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