This article deals with the concept of embeddedness and its role in understanding the evolution of business networks. Networks are viewed as structures of inter-firm relationships that emerge and evolve through continuous interactive processes. Embeddedness refers to companies' relations with,...

The authors propose a deeper and intensified study of dynamics in business networks. They argue that although changeability is often claimed to be an important feature of networks, this characteristic has been somewhat disregarded in research. The authors, addressing in particular the industrial...