Netzwerke sind zum Inbegriff flexibler und wettbewerbsfähiger Organisationsformen geworden.(...) Um Netzwerke handelt es sich nur dann, wenn die Zusammenarbeit der Netzwerkunternehmen zu Ressourceninterdependenzen führt.(...)

The financial crisis made apparent the fact that managers and the boards of banks had failed to see the implications of irrational behavior and had ignored the risk associated with group think. Taking data from Switzerland our study shows that there is an increasing homogeneity of management and...