This article uses a unique research design to statistically analyze how a firm's public-private network can shape its upgrading capabilities. Such a network includes a firm's ties to other firms as well as to associations, cooperatives, schools, and publicly supported institutions that aim to...

The transformation of East-Central Europe deepens the debate about firm creation in a unique way: how do approaches to institutional creation impact the creation of firms? This paper theoretically and empirically explores this question by offering an alternative, embedded politics approach to...