While there is a vast amount of literature examining firm’s networks from an industrial organization perspective the financial implications of networking remain underexplored. This book fills this gap by investigating the phenomenon of business networks in the context of management and governance processes and the related effects on interactions with the financial system in general and credit institutions in particular. Networking is examined both from the demand (firms) and supply (banking institutions) perspective thus the book offers several contributions. It outlines the critical issues connected to business aggregations from the point of view of the management of information flows and addresses the problem of identifying the role of banking ecosystems in light of the transformations taking place in the financial industry considering the growing complementarity between bank and market instruments in corporate financing. It explores the problem of identifying rating models for business networks as well as for individual participants on a stand-alone basis. Further the book analyses a sample of networks in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and profiles a number of specific business cases. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and scholars in the field of banking and finance but also entrepreneurship and small business management. It will also find an audience among scholars from a wide array of additional fields working on the relationship between financing concerns and growth opportunities. | Banks and Business Networks Management Governance and Financial Implications