This paper proposes a new approach to explain the long-term evolution of a supplier industry. The network of vertical … relations between suppliers and buyers is identified as a determinant of the concentration of the supplier industry and of the … econometric exercise is used to test some hypotheses about the relation between selected network measures and industrial dynamics. …

the industry, as represented by the network of vertical relations between aero-engine suppliers and aircraft manufacturers …

The literature on network effects has popularized a hypothesis that competition between incompatible technologies … corners the market. Our study suggests that overemphasizing the installed base, while ignoring network structure, could …

.g. geographical distance between regions). ERGMs represent a new set of network analysis techniques that have been developed in recent … determinants at the structural network level while still only requiring cross-sectional network data. The usefulness of ERGMs is … illustrated by an empirical study on the structure of the cross-regional R and D collaboration network of the German chemical …