... to the centrality of a network approach based on interconnected relationships. The entering into a new stage of life cycle depends on relationships, mainly based on connected actors and resources shared and combined. Even if a key role is assumed by technology, the main resource is identified in the knowledge...

... by a question: “Why is the IMP research tradition most often referred to as a network approach and seldom as a network theory?” Since a theory has to be a theory of a specific real-world phenomenon, and since IMP research covers many types of phenomena, we selected one phenomenon that has already been addressed...