Rossmannek, Oliver; Rank, Olaf N. - In: European Management Review 18 (2020) 1, pp. 85-99
We study preferential attachment (i.e., a rich-get-richer effect) in alliance networks. Thereby, we argue that various … levels (firm, firm group, country) influence the strength of preferential attachment. To test our hypotheses, we take a …-oriented models, a method for analyzing longitudinal network data. As a result, we find that preferential attachment is stronger for …