Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks

Download or read book Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks written by Bart Kamp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple suppliers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view. Bart Kamp presents a framework that reveals what business-to-business (b2b) factors explain buyer-supplier co-location patterns, making it possible to predict the geographical behaviour of suppliers, and also assesses whether longevity is truly the deep-rooted feature of international b2b network relationships that it is often claimed to be.