Measuring individual productivity (or equivalently distributing the overall productivity) in a network structure of workers displaying peer effects has been a subject of ongoing interest in many areas ranging from academia to industry. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on...

Developing, promoting, and managing networks is a core element of entrepreneurship. Yet, limited research exists on the inherent processes and interaction dynamics underlying the social phenomenon of network formation among nascent companies over time. I conducted a qualitative inductive study...

Proximity between stores in franchise networks that share the same brand is a highly contentious issue. A high-performance store may have different impacts on its proximal peer stores from a negative impact, such as potential cannibalization, to a positive impact, such as improved brand...

We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network itself. In the absence of correlated effects, the reflection problem is generally solved by network...