ABSTRACT
The concepts of mobilisation and coordination have been widely used to explain changes in inter-organisational settings and in industrial networks. This chapter is an attempt to bring some clarity to the concepts and the relationship between them. It starts with a discussion of how economic change is explained within more traditional economic theory and this is followed by an introduction to changes in networks. A case study is presented to illustrate how mobilisation and coordination affect the evolution of a network. The chapter describes the coordination of activities and mobilisation of resources and actors are treated as isolated processes. It considers how mobilisation in terms of development of new technologies affects the coordinated activities in a network of industrial production. To be successful the mobilisation process must be accompanied by the forming of new networks. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how coordination and mobilisation are interrelated.
