This study investigates characteristics that affect the relationship between firms' positions in a network of collaborative ties with other firms and their performance. Firms located in similarly structured networks rich in structural holes may obtain different performance results depending on...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between structural holes in a firm's ego network and firm performance. We argue that the firms need two types of information - about new business opportunities and partner cooperativeness - to pursue, respectively, two types of self-reinforcing...

Research on resource dependence typically takes a static view in which actions and outcomes are determined structurally, but not as responses to the actions of the counterparty in an exchange relation. By contrast, this study addresses a question of power dynamics by examining whether mergers of...