| Author: | Biggiero, L. |
| Title: | Self-organizing processes in building entrepreneurial networks: a theoretical and empirical investigation |
| Journal: | Human Systems Management
2001 : VOL. 20:3, p. 209-222 |
| Index terms: | ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORKS EMPIRICAL RESEARCH |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Industrial districts are weakly hierarchical organizations, which present the typical dual nature of social systems: the systemic nature, which is manifested more at the unity level considering the district as a whole, and the subjective behavior of its members, which can play a crucial role either in triggering the district or in its evolutionary patterns. Such a double nature becomes a powerful engine of knowledge creation/transfer when organizations are recursive and self-organizing, and when the emerging values promote cooperation and trust. These co-evolutionary, recursive and self-organizing aspects have been synthesized in Non-aka's concept of 'ba'. |
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