The organization of interfirm networks such as alliances cooperatives franchise and retail
chains has become an important research topic in the field of economics marketing strategic
management and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and
informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design
ownership evolution of cooperation role of social capital and performance in franchising
networks includes topics of loyalty reputation and organizational form as well as performance
of cooperatives and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in
alliances governance structures of innovation activities dynamics of interfirm conflicts and
network externalities and alliance formation.
