This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects...

Globalization effects nearly everyone and everything; and so, it does for networks and its different dimensions. Anna-Lena Bunse explores the network structure of migrant entrepreneurs in Bremen-Gröpelingen, and asks how informal networks for migrant entrepreneurs are structured and how migrant...

This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective. The book assumes a novel theoretical angle based on the interpretation of networks as multiple systems, and advances the...

Chapter 1: Rethinking Chinese Business: Problematics, Issues and Questions -- Chapter 2: Centripetal Authority, Differential Networks: The Social Organization of Chinese Firms in Singapore -- Chapter 3: Guanxi, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks.- Chapter 4: Personalism and Paternalism in...

This volume features contributions to agent-based computational modeling from the social sciences and computer sciences. It presents applications of methodologies and tools, focusing on the uses, requirements, and constraints of agent-based models used by social scientists. Topics include...

This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of EU regional cohesion based on a network and clusters approach. The author explores the question if and how the presence of network structures supports the effectiveness of transformation in EU regions, in particular with a focus on...

Legal and Functional Perspective of Freight Forwarding in Multimodal Transport Chains -- New Industrial Economics, Intermediation Theory, and the Intermediary Perspective -- Models of network Structure and the Network Perspective -- A Closer Look on Contemporary Social Network Analysis --...

De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another that is a futuristic sustainable model. Both are new...