Business & nonbusiness actors in a turbulent environment

The existing studies in the industrial netvork have devoted their attention extensivelyto the commercial actors. The political and intermediary actors stand in the farhorizon and their impacts are implicitly considered to be manageable. These studiesmay be relevant for a condition of harmony or a positive interaction among theseactors. But the business world is becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. Theresearch question for this paper concerns the interaction of political, intermediarysystems within industrial networks. The research emphazis business, two interrelatedquestions. one question concerns the basis of the relationship between these threenetworks. The next question is how a change in the value of the political systemmake change in the behaviour of intermediary and business actors. The studypresents six cases about the Swedish MNCs in India confronted with a changedpolitical value system and the ability of management to understand the Meraction ofthe three systems of political, intermediary and business. The aim of this paper is tocontribute some knowledge about the relationships between the political andbusiness networks