We examine how a firm’s centrality within a network of geographically proximate firms affects its competitive … network enhances its competitive capabilities as the strength of its direct ties increases. Furthermore, firms can capture the … high) degree of cognitive cohesion. We contribute to the network and strategy literatures by reconciling conflicting …

identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first discussed, followed by solutions to this problem that have been put …

This paper contains an analysis of the network of the 29 largest European insurance groups and their financial …

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network … matters for friendship ties but that structural network variables are important in all network dimensions. Importantly, these … effects are not invariant across different network dimensions. We also find that individual characteristics are unrelated with …

-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning of regions captured in terms of social network analytic (SNA …) centrality measures. The objective is to estimate how region-internal and region-external factors influence network embeddedness … in the distinct network types, in order to identify differences in their driving factors at the regional level. In our …

the collaboration network researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers …

particular it is important to define the network organization and the functions associated to the different network partitions … relevant network components as communities. The method is also useful to represent the network community structure, especially … the network hierarchical structure. The application of the methodologies is based on the Italian interlocking directorship …

than to other members of the network. In this paper, we identify such communities in the European R&D network using data on …