In a networked economy and society, the connections between individual actors, organizations and entire industries gain more importance than the entities themselves.

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As the contributions in this volume suggest, networks develop somewhat fragile identities that emerge through shared practices and language games. From this perspective networks are an outcome of acts of language use and their organizational practices unfold in and simultaneously constitute these networks. Providing rich empirical examples the authors narratives are linked by one common thread: how acts of ”languaging” and heterogeneous practices contribute to the rise (and sometimes fall) of networks, and how these networks perform complex tasks shaping organizations, and by extension, us.

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Martin Kornberger received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Vienna and is currently working as Senior Lecturer between the School of Management and the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. Siegfried Gudergan is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Business and the Deputy Director of ICAN Research, a Research Centre on Innovative Col-laborations, Alliances & Networks, both within the University of Technology, Sydney.