Network Challenge, The - Strategy, Profit And Risk In An Interlinked World

Networks define modern business. Networks introduce new risks, as can be seen by the rapid spread of contagion in global financial markets, and opportunities, as seen in the rapid rise of network-based businesses. While managers typically view business through the lens of a single firm, this book challenges readers to take a broader view of their enterprises and opportunities. In this book, more than 50 leading thinkers in business and many other disciplines take on the challenge of understanding, managing, and leveraging networks. This book offers deep knowledge of networks drawn from decades of research by one of the broadest groups of experts ever assembled to consider this topic. It provides actionable new insights into many facets of the network challenge, from supply chains to social networks, leadership to strategy, risk management to HR, terrorism to infectious disease.