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The origin of strong ties: the role of weak ties in the evolution of alliance networks

2017

Studies on the structure of alliance networks have explained how the formation, maintenance, and decay of local within cluster ties and shortcuts with semi-distant and distant organizations drive the emergence and evolution of small world architecture in such networks. Interorganizational ties are distinguished into strong and weak on the basis of their strength. Nonetheless, by focusing mainly on strong alliances ties, previous research has fallen short to explain the role of weak ties among organizations for the evolution of alliance networks. With the aim of scrutinizing the role of weak ties in the establishment, maintaining, and transforming of alliance ties, we develop a conceptual fr…

Alliance networks entrepreneurial opportunities strong and weak tiesSettore SECS-P/08 - Economia E Gestione Delle Imprese
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The Power of Weak Ties: Leveraging Weak Ties in the Evolution of Alliance Networks

2014

In today's knowledge-based economy, the sources of competitive advantage lie more and more in webs of relationships among a variety of firms that over time originate the emergence of interfirm strategic networks. The paper aims to shed light on the role of complex leadership exerted by network central firms in promoting and supporting network interactions and the ensuing processes of knowledge and resource transfer and diffusion. Processes on which the network-based sources of competitive advantage are rooted. In the attempt to make the proposed contribution, on the one hand, we underscore the emergent nature of network interactions stemming from the self-organizing behaviors that spontaneo…

Evolutionary dynamicSettore SECS-P/08 - Economia E Gestione Delle ImpreseStrong and weak tieAlliance Networks
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