Inter-firm networks are a traditional and yet modern organisational form. In practice they appear as strategic alliances, regional and global networks, joint ventures, value-adding partnerships, and consortia. The Research Group aims at relating theoretical and empirical research on inter-firm networks. The focus of theoretical research is to develop a theory of inter-firm networking which is based upon the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens and which informs management practice as much as empirical research. Empirical research is oriented on the genesis und management of inter-firm networks, aiming to study their importance for economic performance and technological development.

• Paths of Developing Complex Technologies:
  Insights from Different Industries
  
  Workshop at the Free University of Berlin,
  September 17-18, 2007
  sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation
  [Report]
• Call for Paper:
  Studying Path Dependencies of
  Business, Institutions, and Technologies
  [Link]