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obtained from Clari-vate Analytics database revealed that the significance of networking in international activities of small … firms are not explored sufficiently while networking and internationalization of SMEs separately are a much more popular …
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The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...
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By taking advantage of a new hand-collected dataset on CEO educational networks between 1992 and 2013, this paper studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that is, have extremely large networks). Second, while...
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In this paper, we study the importance of social networks in the CEO labor market. Specifically, we examine whether (i) CEO networks enhance their pay; and (ii) the mechanism by which CEO networks increase pay is due to enhancements in firm productivity. We use CEO educational networks and find...
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This study untangles the social processes and inter-organizational mechanisms underlying human resource management (HRM) knowledge networks. The research questions serve to advance understanding of how HRM knowledge flows between firms under contractual relationships and in the absence of formal...
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Drawing on multiple-level embedded case study research of eight dyadic joint-design alliances and 14 collaborative ventures within them, this study sheds light on how value, in the form of common and private benefits, is created in interorganizational relationships. To do so, I focus on network...
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This conceptual paper investigates the creation of interlocking directorate ties focusing on firms’ choice between sent, received, and undirected board interlocks. Drawing on a framework on the benefits of board interlocks stemming from resource dependence theory, we synthesize prior research...
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This article has the aim of considering whether managerial control, no matter its form, has outlived, its usefulness in postbureaucratic society, and if so, whether it can be replaced by a more emancipatory discourse among local practitioners as they confront the immanent requirements of social...
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How does the social capital of venture capitalists (VCs) affect the funding of start-ups? Extant entrepreneurship literature conceptualizes a substitute effect between the social and financial capital that new firms attain from their investors. On the contrary, by building on the rich social...
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Corporate social networking sites provide employees and employers with considerable opportunity to share information … and become friends. Unfortunately, American and international laws do not directly address social networking site usage … defamation provide the pattern for future social networking laws. Ethical considerations such as productivity, security, goodwill …
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