Entrepreneurs have two key aims in managing their ego-networks: extending reach to valuable resources and facilitating resource acquisition. This study provides a synthesis of the brokerage, cohesion, and embeddedness literatures to develop and present a multilevel theoretical framework and...

Continual increase in the complexity of technologies and innovations has resulted in actors, i.e. individuals or organizations, becoming more dependent on other actor's knowledge and skills to complement their own skills in the innovation process. As a result, networks have become more and more...