Relevance of focal nets in understanding the dynamics of business relationships

Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 3-35

  Alajoutsijärvi, Kimmo ^a   Möller, Kristian ^b   Rosenbröijer, Carl Johan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Business relationships; Industrial networks; Network management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010652652     PISSN: 1051712X     EISSN: 15470628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J033v06n03_02     Document Type: Article

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