This book examines advances in the management and analysis of networks of organizations in service industries. It was originally published as a special issue of The Service Industries Journal.

1. Advances in Service Networks Research 2. A Comparative Analysis of Quantity and Price Competitions in Tourism Supply Chain Networks for Package Holidays 3. The Centrality of Service Organisations and their Leisure Networks 4. Network Analysis and Wine Routes: The Case of the Bairrada Wine Route 5. Important 'Ingredients' for Successful Tourism/Protected Area Partnerships: Partners Policy Recommendations 6. Knowledge Networks in the Tourism Sector of the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Conurbation: Preliminary Analysis 7. Measuring Tourism Chain Performance 8. Applying a Lifecycle Perspective to Explain Tourism Network Development 9. Unintended Consequences in the Evolution of Affiliate Marketing Networks: a Complexity Approach 10. The Effects of Network Embeddedness on Service Innovation Performance 11. Knowledge Networks of Innovative Businesses, An Explorative Study in the Region of Ingolstadt 12. Knowledge Transfer in a Tourism Destination: the Effects of Network Structure