Steve New and Ioannis Mitropoulos
In marketing and operations literature, there is an emergingconsensus that the inter‐firm network is of strategic significance.Challenges the assumption that supply networks are…
Abstract
In marketing and operations literature, there is an emerging consensus that the inter‐firm network is of strategic significance. Challenges the assumption that supply networks are always “out there” waiting to be investigated. Rather than treat networks as objective artifacts, explores the extent to which they are invented and chosen by actor(s)/observer(s). Uses examples to illustrate this argument.