Towards a Network Strategy: Economic Rent Perspectives

Abstract:

The article presents an attempt to systematise strategic management strategies based on inter-organisational networks. The authors present the organisation’s network strategies from the perspective of economic rent. The first part of the article presents the evolution of the approach to enterprise strategy from the point of view of various approaches to the strategy: planning, positioning, resource, innovative-entrepreneurial and network approach. The second part presents the definition of the network strategy in terms of economic rent. In the last part of the article, the authors present approaches to the network strategy from the point of view of rent, levels of network development and network combination strategy.