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Understanding Event-based Business Networks
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Abstract This article deals with the temporality in business networks. Marketing as networks approach stresses interaction processes and interdependence among actors noting that business markets are mainly socially constructed. The approach has increased our understanding of business marketing but further at... view more
This article deals with the temporality in business networks. Marketing as networks approach stresses interaction processes and interdependence among actors noting that business markets are mainly socially constructed. The approach has increased our understanding of business marketing but further attention for theory development and empirical validation is needed. Theoretical foundations of the approach are conceptually analysed here, taking time and timing into particular consideration. A model of event networks is developed as an approach to understand temporality in business networks. The event network perspective is exemplified using practical cases. It is argued that extensions of network theory, methods and models can be approached using connected events as a base.... view less
Classification
General Concepts, Major Hypotheses and Major Theories in the Social Sciences
Sociology of Economics
Free Keywords
business networks; event networks; events; time;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 319-348
Journal
Time & Society, 17 (2008) 2-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X08093427
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)