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4. Business service networks and their process of emergence: the case of the Health Cluster Portugal

Tipo de Documento:	Artigo Científico
Título:	Business service networks and their process of emergence: the case of the Health Cluster Portugal
Autor:	Ramos, Carla Sofia Dias Moreira Roseira, Catarina Brito, Carlos Henneberg, Stephan C. Naudé, Peter
Data da publicação:	2013
Resumo no idioma original:	Business services have been receiving increasing attention from academics, practitioners and policy-makers. Despite the growing interest, this field of research suffers from several limitations: it draws mostly on services marketing theory, and it is grounded mostly in monadic and dyadic studies. This paper contributes to the advance of business services research by addressing these limitations with regard to a specific service-related issue. We carry out an interdisciplinary study by integrating among others an industrial network approach (INA) into the services area, and we thus develop the research at a network level by adopting a services network perspective; furthermore, the study is carried out in a business-to-business context by looking into a health cluster: the Health Cluster Portugal. The article addresses one particular aspect of business services networks: their emergence. We propose a conceptual framework that draws on process-based research and integrates theories from other bodies of research, allowing a rich understanding of how a business service network is created. Our findings point to discontinuities along the emergence of such networks, showing that there is an iterative process underlying their formation, with different theories playing a predominant explanatory role at different stages. This paper contributes to the wider body of literature on services re search by promoting the integration of the INA and other process-related approaches in the area of business services networks, and also provides practitioners and policy-makers with a structured framework to understand how an intentional ‘bottom–up’ business service network may be created or orchestrated
Palavras-chave no idioma original:	Business service network Industrial Network Approach Emergence of networks Health Cluster Portugal
Idioma principal:	Inglês
Area do CNPq:	Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
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