Forms of network organization: configuration and instrument of analysis of the recent industrial dynamic

The transition from the 80’ s to the 90’ s points to the growing of a new pattern of industrialization and development. In this process, new forms of intra and inter firms organization develop. The purposes of this paper are to characterize the “new” form of firm organization, “network”, and to discuss the theoretical basis which support this new kind of shaping the management of the inter-dependences among the economic agents. Two main lines are identified, centered, respectively, in the allocation and in the creation of resources, that give distinct visions of the organization process and of the delimitation of the inter-relations among firms.

KEYWORDS:
Globalização; network organization; innovation