CARLA SOFIA DIAS MOREIRA RAMOS
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Artigo Científico Understanding network picture complexity: an empirical analysis of contextual factors(2012) CARLA SOFIA DIAS MOREIRA RAMOS; Henneberg, Stephan C.; Naudé, PeterThere has recently been increasing interest in the relationship between managers' perceptions of their surroundings and their interactions with other actors. This sense-making issue is linked to the development of the concept of network pictures. Our paper investigates a hitherto neglected aspect of network pictures: their complexity. In several bodies of literature, complexity has been found to affect firms' action and performance. We theoretically derive a model of network picture complexity, which is then used to analyze forty-seven network pictures collected in seventeen companies from two distinct networks. Complexity is assessed on a number of dimensions at the individual, and organizational levels. We show the relationship between complexity and an individual manager's characteristics (number of years in a company, as well as experience in internally or externally oriented functions). We also provide evidence for a relationship between cognitive complexity and the number of years a company has been established in business, and the complexity of companies' internal structures. In doing so, this article contributes to a better understanding of the contextual factors that drive sense-making in business networks.Artigo Científico Sense-making in business markets – the interplay between cognition, action and outcomes(2015) CARLA SOFIA DIAS MOREIRA RAMOS; Mattsson, Lars Gunnar; Corsaro, DanielaBusiness markets are characterized by interdependences between business actors. How these actors make sense of such interdependencies is a matter of both theoretical and practical importance. Research on cognitive foun dations for competition in business markets, based on organization and strategic management, has evolved con siderably since the 1980s. Also, researchers on business markets that are based on marketing and adopt a network perspective, have become increasingly interested in cognition and sense-making over the last two de cades. The concepts network pictures and network understanding have been in focus for this research, which has resulted in a demand for improved clarity of the interplay between cognition, action and outcome, as well as for a stronger integration between parallel research developments from related disciplines and research ap proaches. A better understanding of how individual and collective views are developed is also required. This Spe cial Issue, originated in the network perspective of business markets, is aimed to address these issues.