Making sense of network dynamics through network pictures: A longitudinal case study

Ford, David; Redwood, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2005.05.008

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“…The multiple actors involved and the dynamic nature of networks mean that networks have features of business activity with non-predictable outcomes [11] and they cannot A Supplier Network Complaints Perspective be directed or controlled by a single company [11], [34]. Network activities are the result of the network structure, networking behaviour and network outcomes [8].…”

Section: Features Of Business Networkmentioning

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“…Study of business networks has encompassed many different perspectives, for instance, network cooperation [1], network competencies [5], network learning [6], network strategy [7] and network management [1], [8], and many different concepts, e.g. network dimensions [8], network insights [9] and network dynamics [10], [11]. Recent research has tried to improve understanding of business networks through the use of network pictures [12], [13], which are different understandings of how business network actors subjectively comprehend their surroundings [13].…”

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A New Approach to Manage Welding Quality in Supply Chain Networks: A Supplier Network Complaints Perspective

Toivanen¹

2017

IJMEA

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Abstract:This study presents a five-step method for analysis of supply chain networks from the perspective of the welding quality of manufactured products. The presented approach gives tools to take care of welding quality assessment in supply chain networks. The study uses data based analysis of complaints data and survey results to provide information that may assist managerial decision-making and supplier-related marketing activities. The results reflect the importance of information sharing as a means to reduce the number of complaints and show that combining production data and information about the production offers potential for manufacturing quality development in the supply chain network. The study uses applied RACI matrix and the case of a welding supply chain network to establish the findings. The case example discusses the observations dealing with GMAW process.

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Section: Features Of Business Networkmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A New Approach to Manage Welding Quality in Supply Chain Networks: A Supplier Network Complaints Perspective

Toivanen¹

2017

IJMEA

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“…about the relevant network horizon) (Holmen and Pedersen, 2003). Defined in this broad sense, network pictures can, for example, be used to trace the development of a whole network longitudinally (Ford and Redwood, 2005). However, in this paper we use network pictures as snapshots in time, and adopt a narrow perspective because we are interested in managers' sensemaking, i.e., how they explain changes.…”

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Sensemaking in business networks: Introducing dottograms to analyse network changes

Abrahamsen

Henneberg

Naudé

2012

Industrial Marketing Management

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Research Highlights• This study develops an novel analytical framework called 'dottograms' which facilitates a more detailed understanding of change within networks• This research method enables comparing actor perceptions of network changes within and across business networks• Our method represents a contribution to research methods in business networks and network change.• We provide a basis for improved understanding of time dimensions (past, present and future changes) and space dimensions (change at actor, dyad or network level) in business networks Abstract and keywordsThe issue of how different actors in a network understand changes to their industry remains an under-researched but crucially important area. According to the industrial network approach, companies interact according to their perceptions of the relevant network environment and their subjective sense-making of the network logic and exchange mechanisms relating to the activities, resources, and actor bonds. Using a case study of the Norwegian/Japanese seafood distribution system, we propose a methodology that allows us to better understand these perceptions. We develop an analytical method based on 'dottograms' which facilitates a more detailed understanding of change within networks. In particular, we show how the dimensions of time (past, present and future changes) and space (change at actor, dyad or network level) can be better understood, and also how the method facilitates our understanding by ascribing reasons for the change. As such, we provide a methodological contribution to research on business networks and change.

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“…Moller and Halinen (1999, p. 417) emphasize that knowledge generation about business networks is problematic for the firm, while claiming that in-depth knowledge can only be generated by taking part of the business network, that is, by having business relationships with (knowledgeable) counterparts. Nevertheless, the firm is able to ''make sense of'' the business network via network pictures subjectively devised by managers (Ford & Redwood, 2005). Network pictures are usually pictorial (more or less ''realistic'') representations of the firm's immediate context and of what is beyond the firm's network horizon (i.e., the ''visible'' or ''known'' part of the overall network) and constitute an important input in the decision making underlying the firm's networking processes (Henneberg, Mouzas, & Naude, 2006).…”

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Markets-as-Networks Theory: A Review

Sousa

2010

SSRN Journal

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This paper exposes the development of markets-as-networks theory from formal inception in the mid-1970s until 2010 state-of-the-art, en route presenting its historical roots. This largely European-based theory challenges the conventional, dichotomous view of the business world as including firms and markets, arguing for the existence of relational governance structures (the so-called ''interfirm cooperation'') in addition to hierarchical and transactional ones.

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Making sense of network dynamics through network pictures: A longitudinal case study

Cited by 107 publications

References 3 publications

A New Approach to Manage Welding Quality in Supply Chain Networks: A Supplier Network Complaints Perspective

A New Approach to Manage Welding Quality in Supply Chain Networks: A Supplier Network Complaints Perspective

Sensemaking in business networks: Introducing dottograms to analyse network changes

Markets-as-Networks Theory: A Review

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