What is it about?
How do business networks develop over time and what factors explain its development? In this article we propose a life-cycle of business networks composed by six stages: Birth, Formalization, Development, Consolidation, Decline, and Dissolution.
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Why is it important?
Network managers may benefit from our model to diagnose the development of its network and define strategies for consolidation. Scholars may use the life-cycle model to analyze the development path of business networks and its implications for business performance.
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I believe that the life-cycle model may help network managers and policy-makers to become aware of the development dynamics of business networks and propose new strategies for consolidation.
Dr Douglas Wegner
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This page is a summary of: The life cycle of small-firm networks: an evaluation of Brazilian business networks, BAR - Brazilian Administration Review, March 2015, FapUNIFESP (SciELO),
DOI: 10.1590/1807-7692bar2015140030.
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