Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business

The book aims to collect the most recent research and best practices in the cooperative and networking small business field identifying new theoretical models and describing the relationship between cooperation and networks in the small business strategy

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Marta Peris-Ortiz João J. Ferreira Editors

Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business

Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management Series Editor Elias G. Carayannis School of Business George Washington University Washington, DC, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8124

Marta Peris-Ortiz • João J. Ferreira Editors

Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business

Editors Marta Peris-Ortiz Departamento de Organizacón de Empresas Universitat Politècnica de València Valencia, Spain

João J. Ferreira Department of Management and Economics Universidade da Beira Interior Covilhã, Portugal

ISSN 2197-5698 ISSN 2197-5701 (electronic) Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management ISBN 978-3-319-44508-3 ISBN 978-3-319-44509-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44509-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949639 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Series Foreword

The Springer book series Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management was launched in March 2008 as a forum and intellectual, scholarly “podium” for global/local, transdisciplinary, transsectoral, public–private, and leading/“bleeding” edge ideas, theories, and perspectives on these topics. The book series is accompanied by the Springer Journal of the Knowledge Economy, which was launched in 2009 with the same editorial leadership. The series showcases provocative views that diverge from the current “conventional wisdom” that are properly grounded in theory and practice, and that consider the concepts of robust competitiveness,1 sustainable entrepreneurship,2 and democratic capitalism,3 central to its philosophy and objectives. More specifically, the aim of this series is to