Network Strategies for Regional Growth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Network Strategies for Regional Growth

   • Heléne Lundberg, Martin Johanson

   Pages 1-21

3. A New Role for Government in Regional Development

   • Peter E. Parker, Christer Ekelund

   Pages 22-39

4. Strategic Networks as Institutional Change: The Rich Wetlands of Kristianstad

   • Håkan Pihl

   Pages 40-56

5. Interaction, the Innovative Milieu and Porterian Clusters: A Survey-Based Regional Assessment Illustrated with an Example of a Medical Technology Region in an Early Cluster Life-Cycle Stage

   • Claus Steinle, Holger Schiele, Kai Mietzner

   Pages 57-78

6. Outcomes in Small-Firm Networks: A Quantitative Study in the Southern Brazilian Context

   • Jorge Renato Verschoore, Alsones Balestrin

   Pages 79-99

7. Email as a Communication Strategy in a Regional Strategic Network

   • Edith Andresen, Anette Bergman, Lars Hallén

   Pages 100-125

8. Cluster Membership, Knowledge and SMEs’ Internationalization

   • Snejina Michailova, Sylvie Chetty

   Pages 126-150

9. The Trä 50 Group: A Supplier Network to IKEA

   • Karolina Elmhester, Staffan Brege

   Pages 151-162

10. Marketing Cooperation and Public Policy in Italian Networks of Fashion Firms

    • Simone Guercini, Andrea Runfola

    Pages 163-184

11. Strategy Selection in Business-Angel Networks: Venture-capital strategy and Entrepreneurial Business-Angel Strategy

    • Lars Silver, Nicolaus Lundahl, Björn Berggren

    Pages 185-206

12. Increased Internationalization for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises through Joint Export Networks

    • Hans Jansson, Petter Boye

    Pages 207-228

13. Challenges, Complexities and Advantages of Regional Strategic Networks

    • Heléne Lundberg

    Pages 229-238

14. Back Matter

    Pages 239-243

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In many regions the current focus of the state is to initiate and stimulate the emergence of inter-firm networks in order to produce growth. This book takes a management perspective on the operations and processes in these networks and describes and analyzes how and why geographical proximity influences inter-firm networks.

• development
• growth
• regional development

• Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

  Martin Johanson

• Mid-Sweden University, Sweden

  Heléne Lundberg

EDITH ANDRESEN Doctoral Student and Teacher at Mid-Sweden University, Sweden ALSONES BALESTRIN Professor and Researcher at the School of Management of the UNISINOS (University of Sinos Valley) Brazil BJÖRN BERGGREN Assistant Professor at the Centre for Banking and Finance, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden ANETTE BERGMAN Doctoral Student at Mid-Sweden University, Sweden PETTER BOYE Econ. Dr. Researcher and Consultant STAFFAN BREGE Professor of Industrial Marketing and Head of the Division of Industrial Marketing at Linköping University, Sweden SYLVIE CHETTY Professor of Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand CHRISTER EKELUND Associate Professor at the Centre for Business Studies, Kristianstad University College, Sweden KAROLINA ELMHESTER Assistant Professor in Industrial Marketing at Linköping University, Sweden SIMONE GUERCINI Full Professor in Business Economics at the University of Florence, Italy LARS HALLÉN Professor of Business Administration at Mid-Sweden University, Sweden HANS JANSSON Professor of International Marketing and Director of the Baltic Business Research Centre at Linnaeus School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden NICOLAUS LUNDAHL PhD Student at the Centre for Banking and Finance, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden HÅKAN PIHL Senior Lecturer at Kristianstad University College, Sweden, and Dean of the Departement of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden ANDREA RUNFOLA Assistant Professor in Business Economics at the University of Perugia, Italy SNEJINA MICHAILOVA Professor of International Business at The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand KAI MIETZNER Siemens Healthcare, Düsseldorf, Germany PETER E PARKER Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Sweden JORGE RENATO VERSCHOORE Senior Lecturer and researcher at UNISINOS (University of Sinos Valley) Brazil LARS SILVER Associate Professor at the Centre for Banking and Finance, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden HOLGER SCHIELE Professor of Technology Management - Innovation of Operations at the University of Twente, The Netherlands CLAUS STEINLE Full Professor for Organizational Behaviour and Management at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany

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