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The following chapter outlines the nature of strategic management in a network context. It shows that new pre-conditions and new perspectives have to be considered to fully understand network processes from a strategy perspective. Due to the multitude of interests Involved, the network’s co-evolution is considered to be essentially emergent, based on the results of dialogic processes. As a consequence to these changes, traditional managerial competences will have to be complemented by new network management capabilities. While trying to align network partners and to enhance the network’s cohesion, managers must equally capitalize upon the creative friction in the network’s structure to exploit its problem-solving potential. However, new networked organizational forms may even sustain without having any high-level governance at all.
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Sturm, F., Kemp, J., Van Wendel de Joode, R. (2004). Towards Strategic Management in Collaborative Network Structures. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Collaborative Networked Organizations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7833-1_16
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