Download or read book The Formation Process of SME Networks written by Marita Haas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marita Haas claims that social processes are decisive for the success of SME networks and creates a phase concept based on group theory that describes how owners of small enterprises enter into a cooperation. The framework is applied to three network formation cases in Austria, Belgium and Turkey. The author shows that group theory is a useful tool to understand and anticipate processes in networked organizations and indicates that the group formation process must be accomplished before a network will be able to create benefits.