Starting Up in Business Networks: Why Relationships Matter in Entrepreneurship

Aaboen, Lise; La Rocca, Antonella; Lind, Frida; Perna, Andrea; Shih, Tommy

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-11-13

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349707690

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52719-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 321