This study explores the mechanisms through which economic and social factors affect the performance of banks in syndication networks formed in the Canadian investment banking industry. It is argued that firms have a choice between building embedded network ties that are overlaid with social...

This paper develops a concept of a “multiplex triad” i.e. triplet comprised of actors playing different roles and interconnected by different kinds of relationships. An example of such triad is a social structure comprising two producers connected via horizontal relationships and a customer...