Enterprise development in networks

This paper describes a research project that deals with the challenges facing local traditions of working lite confronted with the demands from international management concepts, such as Total Ouality Management (TOM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Enter­prises cellaborating in three industrial networks participate in an action research project that tries to illuminate some of the basic topics inherent in these challenges. The paper describes how enterprises cellaborating in networks can acquire knowledge and competence through the participation in joint enterprise development activities. Cellaborating in network activities enhances the companies awareness of new challenges and possibilities. Examples illustrating this important aspects of enterprise development in networks will be given and analysed