Lars-Erik Gadde
Lars-Erik Gadde is Professor emeritus. His research interest is focused on the exchange processes among companies in business networks. These processes are analysed from two perspectives. The first concerns purchasing behaviour and purchasing strategies on the buying side, while the second deals with distribution strategies and distribution system dynamics on the selling side.
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Becoming solution provider - a case of network transformation
Do business networks eat solution providers for breakfast
Network dynamics and action space
The industrial network approach and purchasing and supply management research
Network dynamics and action space
Qualitative case studies - highly useful, but difficult to use appropriately
Purchasing behaviour and supplier base evolution - a longitudinal case study
Företag i dynamiskt samspel - om att överleva i den interaktiva ekonomin
Action space in business networks
What does it take to make the most of supplier relationships?
Future changes in sourcing patterns: 2025 outlook for the Swedish textile industry
Network triads - the linkages between small and large words
Supplier Base Dynamics. A case study of a buying firm during five decades.
Four decades of IMP research - the development of a research network
From project partnering towards strategic supplier partnering
Purchasing management and the role of uncretainty
Reorganizing construction logistics for improved performance
Future changes of sourcing patterns: A 2025 outlook for the Swedish textile industry
Interdependencies - blessings and curses
Logistikens roll i effektiva byggprocesser
Systematic Combining: An approach to case research
Purchasing and supply management: on strategic roles and supplier interfaces
Organisational interfaces and innovation
The rise and fall of channel management
Interactive resource development: Implications for innovation policy
Wroe Alderson, IMP and the evolution of theory
Purchasing and supply management and the role of supplier interfaces
Supplier development in a long-term perspective - a case study of a manufacturing firm 1964-2015
40 years of IMP research - the evolvement of the IMP network
Shelf life extension and food waste reduction
Changing Distribution Structures - On the Role of Intermediaries
Differentiation of Distribution - a Challenge for Manufacturers of Industrial Goods
La recherché en distribution et l'approche réseau
Information Exchange in Buyer-Seller Relationships
Organising construction logistics: a case of network re-orientation
Wroe Alderson and IMP - some reflections on the evolution of theory
Resource development as an interactive phenomenon: Implications for innovation policy
Economic consequences of alternative make-or-buy configurations
Purchasing management and supplier interfaces
Organizing product recovery in industrial networks
Systematic combining: One decade later.
New Wine in old bottles: Organizational Renewal through supplier involvement.
The men who knew too much. Supplier involvement and resource development at LEGO.
Distribution network dynamics and the consequences for intermediaries
Strategizing at the Boundaries of Firms
Organizing product recovery in networks – an industrial network perspective
Supply Side Organising – Linking Three Overlapping Domains
MOVING CORPORATE BOUNDARIES: CONSEQUENCES FOR INNOVATIVE REDESIGN
Strategizing at the boundaries of firms
The changing role of middlemen – strategic responses to distribution dynamics
Interactive resource development in new business relationships
Partnering med leverantörer – en outnyttjad möjlighet
"Systematic combining” – ten years later
The changing role of middlemen – strategic responses to distribution dynamics
La dynamique des réseaux de distribution: implications pour les intermédiaires
Moving the boundaries of firms – consequences for innovative redesign
Distribution network dynamics and the role of intermediaries
Repositioning in supply networks – implementing supplier partnering in the construction industry
Organising the supply side – balancing three levels of analysis
Features of Alternative Forms of Intermediation – A Case from the Construction Industry
Árazas az uzleti kapcsolatokban – az ár mint empirikus jelenség
The Changing Role of Intermediation
Intermediaries and Intermediation in Business Networks
Assortment dynamics and the long-term evolution of distribution
Analysing Business Interaction
Managing interfaces with suppliers
Distribution network evolution – challenges for practice and theory
Partnering in the construction industry - Problems and opportunities
Distribution Networks – Challenges and Opportunities
Efficiency-seeking or recipe-following? The case of outsourcing
Improving logistics outsourcing through increasing buyer-provider interaction.
Problems in Purchasing Reorganising
Problem solving in the upgrading of product offerings – a case study from the steel industry
Distribution Research and the Industrial Network Approach.
Coordinated action in reverse distribution systems
Outsourcing – ett hot mot fungerande nätverk?
Analyzing Business Interaction
Business Relationships and Resource Combining
Business recipes, historical narratives and the discovery of networks
Coordinated Action in Reverse Distribution Systems
From Channel Management to Managing in Distribution Network Relationships
The Business Marketing Course: Managing in Complex Networks (2nd edition)
Business relationships and resource combining
Supply Network Consequences of Sourcing in Low Cost Countries
Developing Resources in Logistics – the art of systematic combining
The Mattsson Legacy – the creation of and interaction with a scientific object
Globalization and transition of distribution – analyzing two intertwined processes
Flexibility and rigidity in customization and build-to-order production
Inter-organisational research in the Nordic countries
Organising and coordinating activity structures for build-to-order production
Developments on the supply side of companies
Resource Interdependence in Supply Chains
Strategizing in Industrial Networks
Evaluation of supplier performance - the case of Volvo Car Corporation and its module suppliers
Change and Continuity in the Supplier Base: A Case Study of a Manufacturing Firm 1964-2002
Aldersonian Sorting: An 'old' concept for a 'new' reality
Editorial: Purchasing and Strategy
Ny forskning om logistik i försörjningskedjor
The Multiple Boundaries of the Firm
Third Party Logistics and Logistics Alliances
Cost and Costdrivers in Purchasing - A Case Study of MRO-Procurement
Pricing in Business-to Business Research
Systematic Combining - An abductive approach to case research
More instead of less - strategies for the use of logistics resources
The Business Marketing Course - Managing in Complex Networks
Making the Most of Supplier Relationships
Managing Interfaces with Suppliers
The Changing Role of Purchasing: Considering Three Strategic Issues
System Sourcing - Opportunities and Problems
The Multiple Boundaries of the Firm
The Mattsson Legacy - Learning from long-term research interaction
Logistic Networks in the New Economy
System Sourcing - Opportunities and Problems
Rethinking the Role of the Middleman
Developments in Distribution Networks - A framework for understanding variety
Transvection Analysis - A reverse perspective on distribution
Supply Strategy and Networks Effects - Purchasing behaviour in the construction industry
Making the Most of Supplier Relationships
The Role of Distribution Channels in Value Creation
Transitions of International Production Structures
Supplier Relationships - What does it mean?
Utvecklingslinjer i byggsektorns distributionssystem
Managing Interfaces with Suppliers
Case Studies in Business Market Research - An abductive approach
Activity Structures in Distribution - A framework for analysing efficiency
Utvecklingslinjer i byggsektorns distributionssystem
Distribution of Industrial Goods - In need of new conceptualisations
The Boundaries of the Firm as Relational Interfaces
Making the Most of Supplier Relationships - some reflections on supply strategy
Adjustments and Division of Labour in the Construction Industry
Mellanledens förändrade roll vid distribution av producentvaror
Information Technology and Distribution Strategy
Coordinating, Combining, Connecting - The impact of governance form
The Changing Role of Purchasing - Reconsidering three strategic issues
Changing Distribution Structures - On the role of intermediaries
Purchasing Management - A company function in transition
Distribution networks - An activity based approach
Developments in Distribution Channels for Industrial Goods
Organizing Production Structures - Clasping of visible hands
The Changing Role of Purchasing - Reconsidering three strategic issues
Evolution Processes in Distribution Networks
Information exchange in buyer-seller relationships
Analyzing Dynamics in Distribution
Nätverksanalys av distributionssystem
Distribution channel development
Changing distribution structures
Analysing Change and Stability in Distribution Channels - A network approach
Organizing purchasing - A network perspective
Structural changes in distribution networks
Sourcing strategy during a quarter of a century
The changing role of purchasing
Dealer perspectives of manufacturer total performance strategies
Information technology and distribution strategy
Stability and change in automobile distribution
Morgondagens distribution - Nya strukturer eller starkare integration?
Understanding Distribution Channel Development
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The role of logistics in efficient construction processes
Effektiv arbetsfördelning i byggnätverket