1. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE COMPANY: TOWARDS THE NETWORK DYNAMICS
• The emerging strategic choices
• The unit of the company and corporate functions
• The functional areas, the value chain and growth strategies
• The emergence and centrality of activity with predominance of relational cognitive
2. CHANGE IN THE FUNCTIONS OF THE COMPANY
• The area of organizational and human resource management
• The financial area
• The marketing area
• The production area
3. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND RETICULAR CONTEXTS
• The evolution of reticular capitalism
• From competition between enterprises to competition between tenders: towards competition between projects
• A theoretical framework of networks
• Main reasons for the use of the network
• Agreements
• From the relation to the network
• System design and planning of the enterprise-network
• Types and criticality of the network model
• Integrated communication in the enterprise-network
• Network-based companies and international territorial propensity: industrial districts
4. CONTRACT NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
• The network contract: preliminary aspects
• Contract for the network, different network models and traditional forms of aggregation
• Main managerial opportunities offered by the network contract
• Main criticality of the network contract
• Network contract and co-opetition
• Network contract: a phenomenon on the rise
• Network contract: the 'state of the art' today
5. NETWORK MANAGER
6. ANALYSIS OF THE NETWORK OF COMPANIES