Inter-organizational relationships are driving growing attention among management
scholars: this is a viable and fascinating field of studies, because it is more and more evident …

The number of strategic alliances between large, established firms and small, new ventures
is on the rise-especially in industries affected by technological change. Theoretically, the …

Corporate social capital involves the likelihood of ego actors accessing and using the
resources held by their network alters to facilitate work-related goals. Corporate social …

692 employees from 15 organizations indicated how their goals and those of their
colleagues were related in over 1000 specific interactions. Cooperative interdependence …

The relationship between contractual and relational arrangements in interorganizational
relationships has been subject to an ongoing debate. We propose that in the context of cross …

This article develops a cultural agreement approach to organizational culture that
emphasizes how clusters of individuals reinforce potentially idiosyncratic understandings of …

This paper examines the overlap between competition and friendship in networks, an
instance of multiplexity that we call the grand duality. We show that managers differ …

The shift away from bureaucracy means that managers cannot rely as much on directives
from above. They are now more than ever the authors of their own work. The upside is that …

Social control in network organizational forms is examined through an inductive field study
of a sample of dyadic relationships established by high-growth entrepreneurial firms. The …

Do rivals' alliances increase or decrease the competitive pressure experienced by a firm?
Linking ecological and economic research on organizations, we propose that the effects of …