AN IMPACT OF RESOURCE PORTFOLIO ON NETWORKING TENDENCIES – EVIDENCE FROM BIOENERGY BUSINESS
Journal Title: Problems of Management in the 21st Century - Year 2013, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
Indisputably, networking offers many benefts in business. However, at the same time, it may also restrict the freedom of its actors. The aim of the paper is to complement the knowledge on the benefts and delimitations of networking by a two-step process. Firstly, the actors’ aims for independency and associability in their business relations are examined and based on these aims, different tendencies for networking are found. Furthermore, the paper discusses the resource portfolios of actors, and searches linkages between the actors’ resources and their networking tendencies. The research question of the paper is: “How the resource portfolio of an actor correlates with its tendency to form networks?” Case study research is used as the research strategy. A group of Finnish biomass heating enterprises is studied as the case, and four groups with different networking tendencies are recognized and further assessed. The results provide evidence that the actors tend to form different networks which differ from each other by the power relations and the openness of sharing social capital. In addition, it is noted that the actors differ in their resource portfolios. That creates dissimilar motives for cooperation and networking which are well-reflected with the four networking types found in the study.
Authors and Affiliations
Kirsi Kokkonen, Matti Lehtovaara, Petri Rousku, Tuomo Kässi
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