hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such formal mechanisms are complemented or even replaced by informal social networks … among managers and employees. Despite the relevance of intraorganizational networks, past research on SMEs, however, was … focused mainly on the interorganizational level of analysis. To cover this gap, we map ego networks of senior managers in SMEs …

We investigate the network topology of a comprehensive data set of the world-wide population of corporate entities. In …

social network methodology. We find that directors with strong networks are able to obtain labor market information that …