scholarly journals Neto-App: A Network Orchestration Application for Centralized Network Management in Small Business Networks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewang Gedia ◽  
Levi Perigo
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Network Orchestration

Self-organizing processes in building entrepreneurial networks: a theoretical and empirical investigation

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Biggiero
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Evolutionary Patterns ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Entrepreneurial Networks ◽  
Firm Networks ◽  
Self Organizing

Self-organization is a property of social systems, and its recognition can give a remarkable contribution to the theory of entrepreneurship and to the analysis of inter-organizational networks. While literature on the classification of inter-firm networks and on their (dis)advantages is relatively abundant, there is much less on the processes of their formation and development. Since the convenience of building inter-firm networks is often uncertain and ambiguous, it involves social-psychological aspects and is based on personal relationships. This is particularly true in the case of small business networks, where the small firm size makes firm networks coincide with entrepreneurial networks. This characteristic can be extended to industrial districts, which are systems emerging from the interplay between small business networks. Industrial districts are weakly hierarchical organizations, which present the typical dual nature of social systems: the systemic nature, which is manifested more at the unity level, considering the district as a whole, and the subjective behavior of its members, which can play a crucial role either in triggering the district or in its evolutionary patterns. Such a double nature becomes a powerful engine of knowledge creation/transfer when organizations are recursive and self-organizing, and when the emerging values promote cooperation and trust. These co-evolutionary, recursive and self-organizing aspects have been synthesized in Nonaka's concept of ‘ba’. The cases discussed here deal with recursive processes in the formation of entrepreneurial networks in the biomedical district and in the formation of the district itself, which are seen as partially self-organizing processes. In the perspective considering knowledge as embodied in human beings and created by their social interactions, this paper concerns self-organizing and knowledge-creating processes at district and network levels.

Developing Small Business Networks in New Zealand

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-88
Author(s):  
Shaun Goldfinch ◽  
Martin Perry
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Business Networks

Sources of Innovation and Success in the Food Service Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 183-197
Author(s):  
A.T. Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Food Service ◽  
Good Chance ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Management Capabilities

The purpose of the study in this chapter is to investigate and analyze the sources of innovation and success in food service industry. It also discusses of what kind of network management capabilities were needed in these SME cases. This chapter will demonstrate that the SMEs have a good chance to succeed if they can harness the external knowledge in their start up process. This chapter contributes to the prior strategic management and business networks research by analyzing the selected SME cases in the food service industry.

Sources of Innovation and Success in the Food Service Industry

2013 ◽  
pp. 1790-1804
Author(s):  
A.T. Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Food Service ◽  
Good Chance ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Management Capabilities

The purpose of the study in this chapter is to investigate and analyze the sources of innovation and success in food service industry. It also discusses of what kind of network management capabilities were needed in these SME cases. This chapter will demonstrate that the SMEs have a good chance to succeed if they can harness the external knowledge in their start up process. This chapter contributes to the prior strategic management and business networks research by analyzing the selected SME cases in the food service industry.

scholarly journals Trust, control and knowledge transfer in small business networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Massaro ◽  
Andrea Moro ◽  
Ewald Aschauer ◽  
Matthias Fink
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Business Networks

scholarly journals Network orchestration: new role of business incubators?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Guilherme Rodrigues Antunes ◽  
Cleber Carvalho de Castro ◽  
Andrea Ap da Costa Mineiro
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Network Orchestration

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance of incubators in the stages of formation and development of incubated business networks, especially in bottom-up and top-down network models. Design/methodology/approach The research is defined as qualitative and descriptive, with the application of multiple case studies, in which two networks of incubated businesses were investigated, one being top-down and the other bottom-up, which emerged within the incubation process of two business incubators (CIETEC and INCIT). To make the study operational, 11 semi-structured interviews were carried out and the thematic analysis of content was developed. Findings The results pointed out that in the top-down network the incubator performs a new assignment, the network orchestration, which corresponds to the actions of formation, coordination and governance of the group. In the bottom-up network, it was found that the role of the incubator was to expand the value offers usually practiced. Research limitations/implications As a limitation of the research, the very limitation of case studies is pointed out that is they do not allow for generalizations. Practical implications The research contributes to reflections on the effectiveness of the incubator and sheds light on the complementarity of networks in incubation processes, providing gains for incubators, incubated businesses and society. Originality/value The originality of this document is the new role of the incubator, which is orchestration, and its categorization. The results allow us to understand the effects of providing networks and relationships for incubated businesses. In addition, this study broadens the focus of traditional analyses of the incubator–incubated duo to consider the incubator–network–incubated trio.

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