Given the importance of network status, this study seeks to understand how newcomers - young organizations entering inter organizational networks - attain such privileged positions. Drawing on literature in imprinting and network theory, we develop a model and hypotheses regarding the direct and...

Given the argued importance of networks to new ventures, this paper is intended to fill a noted gap in the literature pertaining to the factors that influence the evolution of new ventures' alliance networks. Drawing on the imprinting literature, we propose that one has to look beyond the first...

While the importance of strategic alliances for new venture internationalization is well acknowledged, the effect of domestic partners remains less understood. Building on organizational learning theory's vicarious learning arguments, we suggest that internationally experienced domestic partners...