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IMPACT OF DISRUPTIONS ON COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS MODELS AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT – LONGITUDINAL CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS NETWORKS OF TWO FOCAL COMPANIES Hannu Vahtera Sarja/Series A-8:2015 Turun kauppakorkeakoulu Turku School of Economics Custos: Professor Jukka Heikkilä Turku School of Economics Supervisors: Professor Jukka Heikkilä Turku School of Economics Professor Tomi Dahlberg Åbo Akademi University Pre-examiners: Professor Arto Rajala University of Vaasa Professor, Emeritus Ari Heiskanen University of Oulu Opponent: Professor Arto Rajala University of Vaasa Copyright Hannu Vahtera & Turku School of Economics The originality of this thesis has been checked in accordance with the University of Turku quality assurance system using the Turnitin OriginalityCheck service. ISBN 978-952-249-441-2 (print) 978-952-249-442-9 (PDF) ISSN 0357-4652 (print) 1459-4870 (PDF) Publications of Turku School of Economics, Series A Suomen yliopistopaino Oy – Juvenes Print, Turku 2015 "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin ABSTRACT A combination of the following two observations lead to this dissertation being written. Firstly, companies that lead their industry often, over time, seem to lose some of their emblematic capability to exploit disruptions or cope with disruptive events caused by other companies. Secondly, academic as well as professional literature is filled with studies and commentaries on dynamic technology enabled network capabilities that companies can use in order to exploit rapidly arising business opportunities. The factual evidence on companies knowingly engaging in and profiting from such virtual value creation systems is, however, far more scarce.
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