The use of timber as structural building material is growing and a greater number firms are looking to enter this raising market. Erecting complex usually involves combining the work architects, engineers, builders, suppliers and/or supplier–builders, all them having their own business models. purpose research was uncover specific nature models in structure industry. First, thorough mapping the...

This paper proposes a new approach to explain the long-term evolution of a supplier industry. The network of vertical relations between suppliers and buyers is identified as a determinant of the concentration of the supplier industry and of the dynamics of market shares. The vertical structure of the industry is captured by collecting information on all vertical relations between dyads of firms...