Using narrative event sequence analysis to understand the development of business relations

Yimin Huang; Ian F. Wilkinson

Using narrative event sequence analysis to understand the development of business relations

Yimin Huang, Ian F. Wilkinson

Department of Management

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Abstract

We argue that the development of Event-Based Process Models can be used to further understand the way business relations develop over time in a particular context. These types of models, based on Critical Realism, Analytical Sociology and Historical Sociology, explain behaviour in terms of the sequences of events taking place over time and the causal mechanisms and processes producing them. We describe and illustrate the use of Narrative Event Sequence Analysis (NESA) to identify key events and mechanisms in case studies of relationship development, which can help develop and test Event Based Models, and compare it to two other methods – Temporal Qualitative Case Analysis (TQCA) and Event-Based Network Process Analysis (eNPA).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IMP 2015
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 31st annual IMP conference
Place of Publication	Kolding, Denmark
Publisher	Industrial and Marketing Purchase Group
Number of pages	14
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	Industrial and Marketing Purchase Group Conference (31st : 2015) - Kolding, Denmark Duration: 25 Aug 2015 → 29 Aug 2015

Conference

Conference	Industrial and Marketing Purchase Group Conference (31st : 2015)
City	Kolding, Denmark
Period	25/08/15 → 29/08/15

Keywords

development of business relations
event-based models
social mechanisms
processes
analytical sociology
Ethno

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Huang, Y & Wilkinson, IF 2015, Using narrative event sequence analysis to understand the development of business relations. in IMP 2015: proceedings of the 31st annual IMP conference. Industrial and Marketing Purchase Group, Kolding, Denmark, Industrial and Marketing Purchase Group Conference (31st : 2015), Kolding, Denmark, 25/08/15. <http://www.impgroup.org/paper_view.php?viewPaper=8603>

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