The objective of this research is to determine how proximity between organizations promotes the intensity of relationships and facilitates the exchange of information and knowledge in the relationship between the parent firm and the spin-off and its influence on organizational performance....

This paper aims to explain the role of local context in the development of start-ups' social networks, according to a sociological perspective of entrepreneurship, which considers social capital as a main factor of success for the growth of young firms. This research problem is dealt with in...

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

Cluster policies (CPs) are said to be one of the crucial elements supporting the innovativeness of local and regional economies. However, what drives the success of CPs has not been made fully explicit. We tested the impact of perceived quality and strength of social capital (SC) and the formal...