The network construct in entrepreneurship research: a review and critique

A O'Donnell, A Gilmore, D Cummins… - Management …, 2001 - emerald.com
The network construct is in common usage in entrepreneurship research. However while the
increasing use of the construct has furthered our understanding of the phenomenon of …

The contribution of networking to small firm marketing

A O'donnell - Journal of Small Business Management, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
It is generally accepted that networking is one means through which owner–managers of
small firms market their goods and services. However, though there has been considerable …

Chapter 9 Metatheories in research: positivism, postmodernism, and critical realism

FJ Sousa - … culture, business-to-business relationships, and …, 2010 - emerald.com
No scholar or researcher is able to provide robust evidence that counters the scant reflection
on metatheory–mostly ontology and epistemology–underlying management studies in …

Zooming in VS zooming out on value co-creation: consequences for BtoB research

J Leroy, B Cova, R Salle - Industrial Marketing Management, 2013 - Elsevier
The concept of value co-creation is now taken for granted in the marketing community. It is
the result of what we consider as a premature closure of this concept. The aim of this article …

Market driving multinationals and their global sourcing network

PN Ghauri, V Tarnovskaya, U Elg - International Marketing Review, 2008 - emerald.com
The purpose of this paper is to explore how a global supplier network can support and
contribute to a market driving strategy. Theoretically, the paper contributes by integrating the …

Building novel supply chain theory using “metaphorical imagination”

V Stephens, L Matthews… - Journal of Supply …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we explore how supply chain theorists can engage with metaphorical
imagination to develop supply chain theory. Our main purpose was to provide additional …

[HTML][HTML] Using a 'lens' to re-search business markets, relationships and networks: Tensions, challenges and possibilities

I Ojansivu, CJ Medlin, PH Andersen, W Kim - Industrial Marketing …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this research, we wish to address the tension tucked away in scholarly work: the
simultaneous need to break in and break out of academic communities and their ways of …

State of undergraduate business education: A perfect storm or climate change?

KJ Bunch - Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2020 - journals.aom.org
Many students show little improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and written
communication while in undergraduate school, but the data are especially unfavorable for …

Business relationships in the industrial network literature: Three approaches and their underlying assumptions

I Ojansivu, J Hermes, S Laari-Salmela - Industrial Marketing Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The industrial network literature contains underlying assumptions about the nature of
business relationships. We use change as a vehicle to unearth these assumptions and …

Conceptual wanderlust: How to develop creative supply chain theory with analogies

RL Gruner, D Power - Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article guides the development of creative insights in supply chain management. The
authors begin by describing analogies' role in advancing organization theory with a focus on …