Below the surface: how (seafood-)networks work - and how they change

Abstract

The objective of this editorial is to provide a broader context for five papers presenting different aspects of seafood industries, distribution networks and markets. It also discusses in brief some of their propositional contributions to industrial network theories, focussing on three areas of discussion; the evolution of distribution networks (Gadde, 2010), the roles of network ideas in network change processes (Håkansson and Waluszewski, 2002) and the character and dynamics of network interface management (Ford et al., 2003; Ford et al., 2010). The included papers present interesting theoretical contributions as well as detailed case illustrations to these three areas of theory discussions.