Lars-Erik Gadde

2026

Business network dynamics: the interplay between firms and their contexts

Becoming solution provider - a case of network transformation

Do business networks eat solution providers for breakfast

2023

Network dynamics and action space

Catching or missing the wave? Digital service transformation and business agreements in networks of shipping service providers.

The industrial network approach and purchasing and supply management research

Network dynamics and action space

Purchasing behaviour and supplier base evolution - a longitudinal case study

Qualitative case studies - highly useful, but difficult to use appropriately

Företag i dynamiskt samspel - om att överleva i den interaktiva ekonomin

2020

From channel management towards network coordination - changing perspectives on distribution arrangements

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

Organizational interfaces and innovation: The challenge of integrating supplier knowledge in LEGO systems.

2019

Network triads - the linkages between small and large words

Four decades of IMP research - the development of a research network

Accounting and networking

Purchasing management and the role of uncretainty

From project partnering towards strategic supplier partnering

Supplier Base Dynamics. A case study of a buying firm during five decades.

Reorganizing construction logistics for improved performance

Logistikens roll i effektiva byggprocesser

Interdependencies - blessings and curses

Future changes of sourcing patterns: A 2025 outlook for the Swedish textile industry

Systematic Combining: An approach to case research

Purchasing and supply management: on strategic roles and supplier interfaces

Organisational interfaces and innovation

Wroe Alderson, IMP and the evolution of theory

The rise and fall of channel management

Interactive resource development: Implications for innovation policy

Food supply in a network context - an alternative framing and managerial consequences in efforts to prevent food waste

Organizing activity configurations and resource combinations in the formation of a reverse logistics network

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

Differentiation of Distribution - a Challenge for Manufacturers of Industrial Goods

La recherché en distribution et l'approche réseau

Information Exchange in Buyer-Seller Relationships

Reducing food waste through increasing supply chain responsiveness and extended relationship collaboration

Changing Distribution Structures - On the Role of Intermediaries

Shelf life extension and food waste reduction

Organising construction logistics: a case of network re-orientation

Economic consequences of alternative make-or-buy configurations

Wroe Alderson and IMP - some reflections on the evolution of theory

From channel management to network coordination – shifting perspectives on the organising of distribution arrangements

Resource development as an interactive phenomenon: Implications for innovation policy

Purchasing management and supplier interfaces

The men who knew too much. Supplier involvement and resource development at LEGO.

Systematic combining: One decade later.

New Wine in old bottles: Organizational Renewal through supplier involvement.

Organizing product recovery in industrial networks

Distribution network dynamics and the consequences for intermediaries

Strategizing at the Boundaries of Firms

MOVING CORPORATE BOUNDARIES: CONSEQUENCES FOR INNOVATIVE REDESIGN

2013

Supply Side Organising – Linking Three Overlapping Domains

Organizing product recovery in networks – an industrial network perspective

Strategizing at the boundaries of firms

The changing role of middlemen – strategic responses to distribution dynamics

Interactive resource development in new business relationships

Moving the boundaries of firms – consequences for innovative redesign

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

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

Corporations as consumers

Nya roller för mellanhänderna . Värdeskapande i nätverk. Forskningsrapport 2011:5. Handelns Utvecklingsråd. Stockholm.

Managing Business Relationships

Features of Alternative Forms of Intermediation – A Case from the Construction Industry

Dynamiken i handel och distribution – från varuförmedling till skapande av kundvärde. Rapport till Handelns Utvecklingsråd.

The Changing Role of Intermediation

Intermediaries and Intermediation in Business Networks

Understanding the ‘new’ distribution reality through ‘old’ concepts: a renaissance for transvection and sorting

Assortment dynamics and the long-term evolution of distribution

Analysing Business Interaction

Árazas az uzleti kapcsolatokban – az ár mint empirikus jelenség

The importance of linking internal and external supply side organising - Purchasing transformation in the service sector

Product Recovery in Networks

Managing interfaces with suppliers

Hálózati menedzsment

Distribution network evolution – challenges for practice and theory

Supply Network Strategies

Partnering in the construction industry - Problems and opportunities

Business in Networks

Efficiency-seeking or recipe-following? The case of outsourcing

Distribution Networks – Challenges and Opportunities

Improving logistics outsourcing through increasing buyer-provider interaction.

Interaction in Networks

Problems in Purchasing Reorganising

Coordinated action in reverse distribution systems

Outsourcing – ett hot mot fungerande nätverk?

Governance, narratives, and business recipes- some reflections on the evolution of the business landscape.

Problem solving in the upgrading of product offerings – a case study from the steel industry

Logistics outsourcing and the role of logistics service providers from an industrial network perspective

Distribution Research and the Industrial Network Approach.

Analyzing Business Interaction

Business Relationships and Resource Combining

Understanding the ‘new’ distribution reality through ‘old’ concepts – a renaissance for transvection and sorting

Teaching in Supplier Networks

Distribution Research and the Industrial Network Approach: antecedents and potential for future research.

Business recipes, historical narratives and the discovery of networks

Coordinated Action in Reverse Distribution Systems

From Channel Management to Managing in Distribution Network Relationships

Outsourcing and Supply Network Performance – consequences of sourcing and producing in low-cost countries

Business relationships and resource combining

Supply Network Consequences of Sourcing in Low Cost Countries

Industry dynamics, business recipes and the rise of networks - some reflections on the re-organisation of industry

The Business Marketing Course: Managing in Complex Networks (2nd edition)

Resourcing in Business Logistics - the art of systematic combining, Malmö: Liber and Copenhagen Business School Press.

The Mattsson Legacy – the creation of and interaction with a scientific object

Developing Resources in Logistics – the art of systematic combining

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

Supply Network Flexibility

Organising and coordinating activity structures for build-to-order production

Activity coordination and resource combining in distribution networks - Implications for relationship involvement and the relationship atmosphere

Developments on the supply side of companies

Evaluation of supplier performance - the case of Volvo Car Corporation and its module suppliers

Strategizing in Industrial Networks

Managing Business Relationships

Resource Interdependence in Supply Chains

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

Ny forskning om logistik i försörjningskedjor

Editorial: Purchasing and Strategy

The Multiple Boundaries of the Firm

The Business Marketing Course - Managing in Complex Networks

Supplier Relations

Third Party Logistics and Logistics Alliances

Cost and Costdrivers in Purchasing - A Case Study of MRO-Procurement

Price in a Relational Context

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 construction industry as a loosely coupled system - implications for productivity and and innovativity

System Sourcing - Opportunities and Problems

Making the Most of Supplier Relationships

Purchasing

Managing Networks

The Changing Role of Purchasing: Considering Three Strategic Issues

Managing Interfaces with Suppliers

Supply Network Strategies, Wiley, Chichester.

System Sourcing - Opportunities and Problems

The Mattsson Legacy - Learning from long-term research interaction

Logistic Networks in the New Economy

The Multiple Boundaries of the Firm

Rethinking the Role of the Middleman

The Construction Industry as a Loosely Coupled System - Implications for productivity and innovativity

Transvection Analysis - A reverse perspective on distribution

From Marketing Channels to Differentiated Networks - Distribution dynamics in a historical perspective

Supply Strategy and Networks Effects - Purchasing behaviour in the construction industry

From Vertical Integration to Network Co-ordination - On the need for alternative conceptualisations of distribution

Developments in Distribution Networks - A framework for understanding variety

Standardisation and Customisation in Construction - Alternative activity structures in production and distribution

Making the Most of Supplier Relationships

The Role of Distribution Channels in Value Creation

Transitions of International Production Structures

Case Studies in Business Market Research - An abductive approach

Supplier Relationships - What does it mean?

Utvecklingslinjer i byggsektorns distributionssystem

Developing Effective Supply Strategies - Is outsourcing, single sourcing and partnering with suppliers the only solution?

Managing Interfaces with Suppliers

Activity Structures in Distribution - A framework for analysing efficiency

Purchasing Management

Distribution of Industrial Goods - In need of new conceptualisations

Utvecklingslinjer i byggsektorns distributionssystem

Towards Understanding Change in Distribution - The dynamics of activities, resources and actors in a network context

Purchasing

The Boundaries of the Firm as Relational Interfaces

Managing Business Relationships

Professionellt inköp

Making the Most of Supplier Relationships - some reflections on supply strategy

Adjustments and Division of Labour in the Construction Industry

Information Technology and Distribution Strategy

Mellanledens förändrade roll vid distribution av producentvaror

Supplier Relations

Purchasing

The Changing Role of Purchasing - Reconsidering three strategic issues

Coordinating, Combining, Connecting - The impact of governance form

Purchasing

Information Technology and the Efficiency of Materials Supply - The implementation of EDI in the construction industry

Information Technology and the Efficiency of Materials Supply - The implementation of EDI in Swedish construction industry

Purchasing Behaviour during three Decades - A case study of change and stability in supplier relationships

Purchasing Management

Changing Distribution Structures - On the role of intermediaries

Purchasing Management - A company function in transition

Developments in Distribution Channels for Industrial Goods

Distribution networks - An activity based approach

Organizing Production Structures - Clasping of visible hands

The Changing Role of Purchasing - Reconsidering three strategic issues

Evolution Processes in Distribution Networks

Analyzing Dynamics in Distribution

Professionellt inköp

Information exchange in buyer-seller relationships

Nätverksanalys av distributionssystem

Professional Purchasing

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

The changing role of purchasing

Sourcing strategy during a quarter of a century

Dealer perspectives of manufacturer total performance strategies

Stability and change in automobile distribution

Morgondagens distribution - Nya strukturer eller starkare integration?

Information technology and distribution strategy

Understanding Distribution Channel Development