A combined approach to business network management

Business network as the form of inter-company cooperation is an important source for improving the performance and increasing the efficiency of enterprises, as well as for enhancing their innovative activity and strengthening market status. Besides, in the management of business processes they must take into accountr not only strategic guidelines and conditions but the specifics of business network development as well. Therefore, the paper addresses the problem of business processes improvement via combining managerial tasks within the framework of intra- and inter-company organizational design.