Knowledge, Transparency and Power in Business Networks
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2011Metadata
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Abstract
This article explores into the relationship between food suppliers and supermarket-chain retailers in the concentrated and
import protected Norwegian dairy market. It aims at developing and discussing analytical constructs to analyze “the dark side
of networks” characteristics of such economic systems (Håkansson et al 2009). On the background of ongoing rivalry between
the historic agrifood supply regime and the emerging integrated supermarket regime (Bush 2007, Konefal et al 2007), the
paper presents and explores into three empirical sub-cases conceptualized as “power-games”. These are “The interdependent
production-capacity game”, “The asymmetric mutual dependency game” and “The networked cost- and benefit distribution
game”. The paper argues that to focus on power, knowledge and transparency is a useful approach to studies of transaction
patterns and economic re-distribution effects across the interacting actors. It furthermore suggests that a potentially rewarding
research route would be to move transaction patterns in complex interacted economies to the focus of further empirical
investigation and theory development.
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