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Value Co-Creation and Entrepreneurial Challenges in Business Networks: What Factors Impact Upon the Performance of Firms in Networks?

In: Entrepreneurial Challenges in the 21st Century

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  • Silvia Cantele
  • Silvia Vernizzi

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In recent decades, the competitive context has become increasingly complex, variable and dynamic. This tendency finds expression in phenomena like globalization and technological acceleration and convergence. To cope best with the dynamism and uncertainty of such a competitive context, firms are required to be bigger, more flexible and more open-minded. These characteristics are not easily found in the Italian business context, where firms are typically small, highly specialized and individualistic. In periods of economic downturn such as the one that is still affecting the Italian economy, the quest for critical mass, flexibility and a less individualistic approach is particularly important for the survival of enterprises.

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  • Silvia Cantele & Silvia Vernizzi, 2015. "Value Co-Creation and Entrepreneurial Challenges in Business Networks: What Factors Impact Upon the Performance of Firms in Networks?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Hans Ruediger Kaufmann & S M Riad Shams (ed.), Entrepreneurial Challenges in the 21st Century, chapter 4, pages 47-68, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-47976-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137479761_4
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