This article highlights a central feature of business networks, resource interaction and heterogeneity, by means of three case studies from the furniture industry. Each case study focuses on one of three central issues in furniture-related business networks, respectively design, distribution and information technology (IT). Data collection and analysis are based on a resource categorisation model termed the «4Rs model» addressing resource interaction, utilisation and development in business networks. Based on the empirical accounts, theoretical implications are extracted with respect to design, distribution, IT and their interplay from the perspective of resource interaction and heterogeneity.
Resource Interaction in Furniture Networks. Relating Design, Distribution and IT
BOCCONCELLI, ROBERTA;
2001
Abstract
This article highlights a central feature of business networks, resource interaction and heterogeneity, by means of three case studies from the furniture industry. Each case study focuses on one of three central issues in furniture-related business networks, respectively design, distribution and information technology (IT). Data collection and analysis are based on a resource categorisation model termed the «4Rs model» addressing resource interaction, utilisation and development in business networks. Based on the empirical accounts, theoretical implications are extracted with respect to design, distribution, IT and their interplay from the perspective of resource interaction and heterogeneity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
