The social structure of insiders and outsiders: Toward a network community perspective on firm performance

X Wu, A Adbi, IP Mahmood - Academy of Management Journal, 2023 - journals.aom.org
Management literature on how interorganizational relationships influence firm performance
has emphasized the importance of connections, positions, and cliques. We advance this …

Cohesiveness or competitiveness: Venture capital syndication networks and firms' performance in China

S Yang, Y Li, X Wang - Journal of Business Research, 2018 - Elsevier
We use a time-sequence dataset of 837 Venture Capital Firms in China to investigate how
the social network characteristics of these VC firms affect their performance. We identified …

Effects of venture capital syndication networks on entrepreneurial success

JM Walske, A Zacharakis… - Frontiers of …, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Social network research has shown that tie strength affects information dissemination, and
that industry embeddedness aids firm performance. Strategy research has also considered …

The impact of investment networks on venture capital firm performance: A contingency framework

C Bellavitis, I Filatotchev… - British Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Venture capital (VC) syndicates involve repeated transactions among partners and therefore
possess network‐like characteristics. Although networks provide access to important …

The dynamics of network communities and venture capital performance: Evidence from China

C Xue, P Jiang, X Dang - Finance Research Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of the dynamics of network communities on venture capital
(VC) investment performance in China. We use Chinese VC market data for the period 2000 …

How the rich become richer in venture capital: Firm performance and position in syndication networks

T Seppä, M Jääskeläinen - Frontiers of entrepreneurship research …, 2002 - research.aalto.fi
This paper compares resource-based and social structural explanations for firms' network
positions and performance. Our distributed lag analysis of an extensive data set of US …

Exploring the locus of invention: The dynamics of network communities and firms' invention productivity

M Sytch, A Tatarynowicz - Academy of Management Journal, 2014 - journals.aom.org
Departing from prior research analyzing the implications of social structure for actors'
outcomes by applying either an ego network or a global network perspective, this study …

Bringing the context back in: Settings and the search for syndicate partners in venture capital investment networks

O Sorenson, TE Stuart - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Most existing theories of relationship formation imply that actors form highly cohesive ties
that aggregate into homogenous clusters, but actual networks also include many “distant” …

Host country network, industry experience, and international alliance formation: Evidence from the venture capital industry

J Zhang, A Pezeshkan - Journal of World Business, 2016 - Elsevier
Integrating resource dependence and social network theories, we investigate how foreign
firms' position in alliance network in host country influences their further allying with firms …

Do better-networked venture capital firms always enjoy higher investment performance? The contingent role of China's institutional changes

D Yang, X Hu, B Wu, Z Xie - Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
By combining the two perspectives of social networks and institutional theory, this article
explores the influence of venture capital (VC) networks on investment performance against …