No Business Is an Island: Making Sense of the Interactive Business World

The interactive dimension is crucial for the development and growth companies and of the economy. In management, creating and appropriating value depends on relating your business to other businesses. When developing strategy, innovating, marketing, purchasing or accounting there is the need to handle the local specific interdependencies in business relationships that characterize the interactive world. That implies a conception of the task and priorities of management and the critical managerial skills that is only partly acknowledged in the contemporary management theory.

Håkan Håkansson is Emeritus professor and one of the founding members of IMP. Has published a number of books and articles about business relationships and networks. His current research interest is development issues including innovations in business networks.