Managing Opportunity Development in Business Networks

1. Introduction: Opportunity Development in Business Networks
Amjad Hadjikhani, Pervez Ghauri, Jan Johanson

Part I. Opportunity Development in Business Networks: Conceptual Development

2. Opportunities, Relational Embeddedness and Network Structure
Ulf Andersson, Desireé Blankenburg Holm, Martin Johanson

3. The Importance of Competition and Cooperation for the Exploration of Innovation Opportunities
Maria Bengtsson, Jessica Eriksson, Sören Kock

4. International Entrepreneurial Culture, International Opportunity Perception and Pattern of International Exploitation: Towards an Integrated Model
Pavlos Dimitratos, Marian V. Jones

5. Subsidiary Business Networks and Opportunity Development in Multinational Enterprises: A Comparison of the Influence of Internal and External Business Networks
Mohammad Yamin

6. Value Processes in Industrial Networks: Identifying the Creation and Realisation of Value
Martin Johanson, Torkel Strömsten

Part II. Opportunity Development in International Business

7. Business Opportunities, Subsidiaries and Interpreneurial Activity
Cecilia Pahlberg, Magnus Persson

8. International Experience and the Recognition of Business Opportunities in Foreign Markets — A Study of SME’s International Experiences and Choice of Location
Jukka Hohenthal, Jessica Lindbergh

9. Opportunities of Being Multinational: A Study of Organizational Rejuvenation, Relationships and Knowledge
Maria Adenfelt, Katarina Lagerström

10. Learning across the Border? Innovations, Knowledge Sharing, and Business Opportunities in MNCs
Fang Lee Cooke

11. Network Opportunities and Obstacles in Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Resource Embeddedness
Enrico Baraldi, Torkel Strömsten

12. Reputation as Opportunity and Risk
Carin Eriksson, Jan Lindvall

Part III. Opportunity Development and Networks

13. The Role of Business Opportunity Mediators in the Entrepreneurial Process
Björn Berggren, Lars Silver

14. Opportunity Development for Ongoing Business Relationships
Cecilia Pahlberg, Peter Thilenius

15. Opportunities and Obstacles in Using IT Systems: Embedding Movex in Edsbyn’s Resource Network
Enrico Baraldi

16. Creating New Opportunities from Old Resources through Contextually Determined Information Asymmetries
Anna Bengtson, Susanne Åberg

17. The Emergence and Exploitation of Opportunities in Business Networks
Benjamin Ståhl

18. Epilogue: Opportunity Development in Business Networks
Amjad Hadjikhani, Jan Johanson

Nyckelord: Business and Management, International Business, International Economics