TY  - CHAP
AB  - In every industry there are resources. Some are moving, others more fixed; some are technical, others social. People working with the resources, for example, as buyers or sellers, or users or producers, may not make much notice of them. A product sells. A facility functions. The business relationship in which we make our money has “always” been there. However, some times this picture of order is disturbed. A user having purchased a product for decades may “suddenly” say to the producer that s/he does not appreciate the product. And a producer having received an order of a product that s/he thought was well known, may find it impossible to sell it. Such disturbances may be ignored. Or they can be used as a platform for development. In this study we investigate the latter option, theoretically and through real world data. Concerning theory we draw on the industrial network approach. We see industrial actors as part of (industrial) networks. In their activities actors use and produce resources. Moreover, the actors interact − bilaterally and multilaterally. This leads to development of resources and networks. Through “thick” descriptions of two cases we illustrate and try to understand the interactive character of resource development and how actors do business on features of resources. The cases are about a certain type of resource, a product − goat milk. The main message to industrial actors is that they should pay attention to that products can be co-created. Successful co-creation of products, moreover, may require development also of business relationships and their connections (“networking”).
VL  - 13
SN  - 978-1-84950-311-2, 978-0-76231-159-0/1069-0964
DO  - 10.1016/S1069-0964(04)13002-0
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1069-0964(04)13002-0
AU  - Forbord Magnar
ED  - Arch G. Woodside
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - CO-CREATING SUCCESSFUL NEW INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS AND PRODUCTS
T2  - Managing Product Innovation
T3  - Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 211
EP  - 335
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -