Contributions to the Impact Assessment of Network Cooperation among Social Enterprises

Abstract

The literature of industrial management has been focusing, although with different intensity, on the question of optimal company size since the 1960s. Whithin this framework the focus shifted since the 1980s form the examinations of, the effects of business outsourcing to increase efficiency to the organizational and economic connections of network cooperation, since the 1990s. This paper reviews the literature and methods, trying to find the answers to the following four questions: