The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of boundary objects in interaction processes within business networks. From a single case study in the grocery retail industry, we find that such objects are used within interaction processes for collaboration, but are also used extensively for handling conflict, facilitating economic negotiations, and power execution. As such, network-level boundary objects do not require broad consensus by all the involved actors, but instead narrow consensus in a particular interaction process.
Munksgaard, Kristin; Olsen, Per Ingvar & Prenkert, Frans (2017)
Boundaries of Business Actors and Networks - Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
Håkansson, Håkan & Snehota, Ivan (red.). No Business is an Island: Making Sense of the Interactive Business World
Olsen, Per Ingvar & Håkansson, Håkan (2017)
The roles of deals and business networks in innovation processes
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of networked power in a concentrated business network. Power is a long standing theme in inter-organizational research, yet there is a paucity of studies about how power emerges and is constructed over time at the network level. The paper adopts process, systems and network theory to interpret a rich single case study from the food industry. Three power mechanisms are identified, gatekeeping, decoupling and resource allocation, which form the basis of a model of networked power dynamics. Empirically tracing the dynamics of networked power highlights the economic contents of interactions. The paper extends current understandings of power as ‘conflict and coercion’ to include influencing, leveraging and strategic maneuvering in the actual performance of networked power.
Olsen, Per Ingvar (2013)
IMP theory in light of process- and system theories
The IMP Journal, 7(3), s. 159- 170.
Håkansson, Håkan; Olsen, Per Ingvar & Bakken, Tore (2013)
Agency and Economizing in Interacted Economies
The IMP Journal, Volume 7(2), s. 106- 111.
Olsen, Per Ingvar (2012)
Below the surface: How (seafood-) networks work - and how they change
The IMP Journal, 6(3), s. 186- 193.
Olsen, Per Ingvar & Håkansson, Håkan (2012)
Innovation management in networked economies
Journal of Business Market Management, 5(2), s. 79- 105.
Hoholm, Thomas & Olsen, Per Ingvar (2012)
The contrary forces of innovation: A conceptual model for studying networked innovation processes
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Olsen, Per Ingvar & Abrahamsen, Morten Høie (2023)
Hvordan skalere nye digitale helsetjenester i krisetider - Lærdommer fra covid-19 pandemien i Oslo Kommune
Kværner, Kari Jorunn & Hoholm, Thomas (red.). Håndbok i helseinnovasjon. Forskningsbaserte råd og verktøy for å forme fremtidens helsetjeneste
Abrahamsen, Morten Høie & Olsen, Per Ingvar (2023)
Innovasjonspartnerskap - Hva det kan og ikke kan bidra med
Kværner, Kari Jorunn & Hoholm, Thomas (red.). Håndbok i helseinnovasjon. Forskningsbaserte råd og verktøy for å forme fremtidens helsetjeneste
Abrahamsen, Morten H. & Olsen, Per Ingvar (2021)
The role of innovation partnerships as a policy tool in healthcare innovation
[Academic lecture]. Nordic Workshop on Public Private Innovation.
Abrahamsen, Morten H. & Olsen, Per Ingvar (2020)
The role of innovation partnerships as a public innovation policy tool
[Academic lecture]. Nordic Public Procurement of Innovation Workshop.
Peavy, Keith Herbert; Hoholm, Thomas, Olsen, Per Ingvar & Mørk, Bjørn Erik (2019)
Emerging solidarities: A Collective articulation of relationally-based practices of care
[Academic lecture]. 11th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies.
Peavy, Keith Herbert; Hoholm, Thomas, Olsen, Per Ingvar & Mørk, Bjørn Erik (2018)
Emerging solidarities and the transformation of caring practices
[Academic lecture]. The 13th Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference (OLKC).
Olsen, Per Ingvar; Mørk, Bjørn Erik, Hoholm, Thomas & Nicolini, Davide (2018)
How global medical innovation processes evolve: The case of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management.
Kvaerner, Kari Jorunn; Olsen, Per Ingvar & Sampietro-Colom, Laura (2018)
Innovative procurement with early decisional support: Accelerating value-based health.The HTAi Conference in Vancouver
[Academic lecture]. The HTAi Conference in Vancouver.
Mørk, Bjørn Erik; Olsen, Per Ingvar, Nicolini, Davide & Hoholm, Thomas (2017)
Tracing connections in action to understand how medical innovation processes unfold
[Academic lecture]. 9th International Process Symposium.
Olsen, Per Ingvar; Nicolini, Davide, Mørk, Bjørn Erik & Hoholm, Thomas (2017)
Tracing connections in action to under stand how medical innovations unfold
[Academic lecture]. 9th International Process Symposium.
Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Harrison, Debbie, Hoholm, Thomas, La Rocca, Antonella & Olsen, Per Ingvar (2015)
Interaction as a process: An expanded view of the ‘spiral’?
[Academic lecture]. Theory and methods implications of industrial network research.
Olsen, Per Ingvar (2014)
Innovation in medical technology and medical procedures - in between global innovation drivers and complex local settings
[Academic lecture]. The IMP Conference 2014.
Olsen, Per Ingvar (2013)
Implementation of new technologies in advanced medical procedures
