werden und die multiple Möglichkeiten besitzen, andere VCG im Netzwerk zu erreichen. Basierend auf den Analysen leitet der …) hold in their syndication network and determines the effect that network positions have on generating deal flow quantity … and quality. Network closure (Coleman 1988) emphasizes that cohesive network structures facilitate cooperative behavior of …

Committee in charge: Alan Meyer, Chairperson, Management;Michael Russo, Member, Management;Anne Parmigiani, Member …, Management;William Starbuck, Member, Management;Renee Irvin, Outside Member, Planning Public Policy & Mgmt …This dissertation integrates economic and sociological approaches to network organizing to explain the structure and …

We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold … illustrate these interdependencies we outline how the impact of an actor targeted by a change agent spreads through the network …

Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets …

influence over management and the diversity of directors’ pre-meeting positions increase the polarization effect. The relative … group processes may distort network diffusion effects. Contributions to research on strategic decision-making processes …

orientation, cost –orientation and managerial IB orientation of a CEE based SME. Using data from 90 manufacturing SMEs from six …Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been a major source of economic growth in Central and Eastern …

This paper presents the findings of a study of SME owner-managers that examined their willingness to share information … online with other members of a local business network. The main variables associated with willingness to share knowledge … knowledge online. A significant locality effect was also identified which suggests that the social context of the network to …

Innovationsmanager in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) der Pharmaindustrie bei der Einführung des Open Innovation Managements zu … Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen von Pharma-KMU zu analysieren und (2) daraus abgeleitet ein Konzept zur Implementierung von Open … Innovation bei Pharma-KMU zu entwickeln.Der Ausgangspunkt des Projektes war die Erkenntnis, dass die Life Sciences-Branche im …

competition spurred by the globalization of the world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune … since SMEs play a key-role in most economies, in that they constitute the largest business block and provide the bulk of … SMEs new arenas to engage in what we may call are “global innovation” activities so as to gain, retain, and further …