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Competitive advantage and long-term survival requires commercial organisations to manage major change successfully. During periods of rapid global change, there is great potential in the use of networks to actively exploit as well as simply respond to major changes.
The chapter will demonstrate the insight provided by networks when studying major change. Furthermore the potential of networks is illustrated as a practical concept to help management identify options that will deliver rapid and sustainable change in traditional organisations
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Osorio, T. (2009). Networks for manage change in international commercial organisations. In: Romano, A., Secundo, G. (eds) Dynamic Learning Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0251-1_2
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