The importance of social and economic networks has meanwhile been widely acknowledged throughout social sciences …. Network positions are supposed to be important for both, consumers and suppliers. Examples are R&D collaborations, strategic … about job openings, bargaining power etc. Given these beneficial aspects of networks, the stability is in question: How do …

The paper examines the views, often associated with Porter, that clusters with deep collaborative networks and …, national, and international networks for the performance of clusters. …

interaction, are thought to be one important instrument of dealing with the new developments in competition.Therefore, this thesis …

professional networks. The findings also reveal a number of barriers that SMEs encounter and highlight the strategies that SME …

Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …

and the implications for the structure of pairwise stable networks. First, different definitions of convexity (concavity … own links and strategic complements, a local uniqueness property of pairwise stable networks is derived. The results do …