This book presents unique insights into how and when rapid responses can be possible in the challenging times following business disruption. It will be a valuable resource for scholars across business disciplines, including B2B marketing and organizational studies.
Business networks consist of interconnected business relationships that evolve over time. The main notion is that firms coordinate business activities and adapt their resources towards counterparts so that long-term business relationships are formed. From time to time, however, ongoing business between suppliers and customers is subject to unforeseen and uncontrollable events that cause sudden stops in business activities all over industries.
Bringing together contributions from scholars in the field of business relationships and networks, this book presents unique insights into how and when rapid responses can be possible in the challenging times following business disruption. It explores the various origins of business disruptions, identifying channels for more active and apt monitoring of business contexts by managers. Readers will gain contemporary and highly relevant knowledge on several aspects of the widespread impact of sudden stops in business. The chapters provide readers with individual and detailed accounts and conclusions about business discontinuity and place them within a cohesive common ground in business relationships and networks.
This edited volume will be a valuable resource for scholars across business disciplines, including business-to-business (B2B) marketing and organisational studies.
1. Introducing Abrupt Disruption of Business and Rapid Responses Part I
- Disruption in Business Networks
2. Exogenous Shock Events and Network
Change Processes: A Scenario Framework
3. Abrupt Interruption of Business in
The Forest Sector: The Case of African Swine Fever in Sweden
4. Disruptions
in Sustainability-Led Business Endeavours
5. Managing Unexpected Disruptions
in Large-Scale Business Projects
6. Corporate Acquisitions as Disruptive
Events? Towards An Event-Centred Analysis of Industry Dynamics Part II -
Rapid Relationship Responses
7. Can You Buy a Business Relationship? The Role
of Actor Identity
8. Digital Transformation and Interaction Interruption in
Business-To-Business Relationships
9. Expected, Yet Potentially Abrupt
Endings: Exploring Buyer-Supplier Relationship Dynamics in the Public
Procurement Process
10. Dissolution of Triads: Effects on a Focal Business
Relationship
11. On The Duality of Business-To-Business Relationships Sudden
Endings
12. After the Storm: What Do We Know About Hiatus and the Following
Recurring?
Anna Bengtson is Professor of Business Studies, especially industrial marketing, in the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Susanne Åberg is Associate Professor of Business Studies, especially industrial marketing, in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Peter Thilenius is Professor in Department of Business Studies, especially international business, at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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