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Starting Up in Business Networks

Why Relationships Matter in Entrepreneurship

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides evidence and illustrations of the importance of inter-organizational business relationships for starting-up in business networks
  • Includes examples of start-ups connecting to the business landscape in countries such as Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and China
  • Proposes a conceptual framework on starting-up a new business venture, developed from empirical case studies

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: Starting Up in Business Networks—Why Relationships Matter in Entrepreneurship

    • Lise Aaboen, Antonella La Rocca, Frida Lind, Andrea Perna, Tommy Shih
    Pages 1-16
  3. Starting Up Business Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. 1 Initiation of Business Relationships in Start Ups

      • Lise Aaboen, Elsebeth Holmen, Ann-Charlott Pedersen
      Pages 19-39
  4. Relationships Dynamics in New Business Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. 3 Starting Up: Relating to a Context in Motion

      • Antonella La Rocca, Ivan Snehota, Debbie Harrison
      Pages 77-105
    3. 4 When Start Ups Shift Network: Notes on Start Up Journey

      • Antonella La Rocca, Christina Öberg, Thomas Hoholm
      Pages 107-136
  5. Start Ups and Technological Collaboration in Industrial Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. 5 R&D Collaboration and Start Ups

      • Jens Laage-Hellman, Maria Landqvist, Frida Lind
      Pages 139-170
  6. Academic Spin-Offs and the Issue of Commercialising Science. Some Empirical Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
    2. 7 The Impact of a Start Up’s Key Business Relationships on the Commercialization of Science: The Case of Nautes

      • Enrico Baraldi, Andrea Perna, Fabio Fraticelli, Gian Luca Gregori
      Pages 201-223
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 307-321

About this book

This book offers a novel perspective on starting-up new business ventures through examining the process by which they become part of the existing business environment. The book highlights the importance of inter-organizational business relationships. Asserting that new ventures need to interact and connect with customers and suppliers, alongside policy actors and universities, Starting up in Business Networks demonstrates how beginning a new venture demands initiating and developing business relationships. Noting a lack of prior research into the process by which start-ups embed into an existing business network, this book presents examples from countries such as Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and China to analyse the emergence and evolution of start-up business networks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian University of Science and Tech , Trondheim, Norway

    Lise Aaboen

  • BI Norwegian Business School , Oslo, Norway

    Antonella La Rocca

  • Chalmers University of Technology , Göteborg, Sweden

    Frida Lind

  • Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

    Andrea Perna

  • Lund University , Lund, Sweden

    Tommy Shih

About the editors

Lise Aaboen is Associate Professor of Technology-Based Entrepreneurship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Her research interests include incubators, NTBFs, commercialization of technology-based ideas and early customer relationships. She has published in a range of journals such as Technovation, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.

Antonella La Rocca is a Research Fellow at Akershus University Hospital and Visiting Research Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Her research interests are in innovation, entrepreneurship and B2B Marketing. She has published in journals such as Industrial Marketing Management and IMP Journal, for which she is an editorial assistant.

Frida Lind is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research interests include innovation, start-ups and organizing in business networks. She has published in the Journal of Business Research and Industrial Marketing Management.

Andrea Perna is a Researcher in the Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. His research interests include new business formation, innovation and CRM processes in B2B marketing. He has published in the Journal of Business Research and Industrial Marketing Management.

Tommy Shih is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden. His research involves the study of business networks, government policy, start-ups and innovation. He has previously published in The IMP Journal, Industrial Marketing Management and Journal of Strategy and Management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Starting Up in Business Networks

  • Book Subtitle: Why Relationships Matter in Entrepreneurship

  • Editors: Lise Aaboen, Antonella La Rocca, Frida Lind, Andrea Perna, Tommy Shih

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52719-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52714-1Published: 30 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70769-0Published: 13 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52719-6Published: 17 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 321

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Start-Ups/Venture Capital, Corporate Communication/Public Relations

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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