Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations
Journal article, 2022
Value co-creation is a core focus area in both B2B marketing and strategy research, necessitating resource utilization within and across organizational boundaries. In the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) group, scholars have focused on the interactions among resources as one important way to analyze central questions about resources in business relationships and networks. This has produced a breadth of investigations and concepts that are locally defined and utilized. This may hamper further theoretical development and inhibit analytical precision. The purpose of this paper is to develop a more general shared understanding of resource interaction by identifying and explicating the key concepts used, and to assess its status as an approach. The paper synthesizes 20 years of research to identify key concepts and the relationships across concepts. This provides both a platform for further conceptual and empirical research within IMP and potential for crossfertilization with parallel B2B areas.
IMP
Resource interaction
Value
Business relationships and networks
Resource interaction approach (RIA)
Resources
Author
Frans Prenkert
Örebro University
Klas Hedvall
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Nina Hasche
Örebro University
Jens Eklinder Frick
Uppsala University
Morten H. Abrahamsen
BI Norwegian Business School
Heli Aramo-Immonen
Turku University of Applied Sciences
Enrico Baraldi
Uppsala University
Roberta Bocconcelli
University of Urbino
Debbie Harrison
BI Norwegian Business School
Lei Huang
Stockholm School of Economics
Lars Huemer
BI Norwegian Business School
Johan Kask
Örebro University
Maria Landqvist
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Alessandro Pagano
University of Urbino
Andrea Perna
Marche Polytechnic University
Uppsala University
León Poblete
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Service Management and Logistics
Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek
University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Industrial Marketing Management
0019-8501 (ISSN)
Vol. 105 48-59Subject Categories
Economic Geography
Business Administration
Information Systemes, Social aspects
DOI
10.1016/j.indmarman.2022.05.008