Network brokerage research has grown rapidly in recent decades, spanning the boundaries
of multiple social science disciplines as well as diverse research areas within management …

Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and consequential organizational phenomena.
Prevailing models underscore social structure and focus on the consequences that come …

We examine whether and when female representation in decision-making groups of venture
capital firms affects the firms' decision to fund woman-led businesses. By developing an intra …

Past research has produced contradictory insights into how prior collaboration between
organizations—their relational embeddedness—impacts collective collaborative …

Acquisitions can dramatically reshape interorganizational networks by combining previously
separate nodes and allowing the acquirer to inherit the target's ties, potentially creating …

Management literature on how interorganizational relationships influence firm performance
has emphasized the importance of connections, positions, and cliques. We advance this …

We explore how the initial market positioning of entrepreneurial ventures shapes how they
professionalize over time, focusing specifically on the development of functional roles. In …

Actors in a multiplex relationship—one crossing multiple domains—can struggle to transition
into new roles in one domain without disrupting existing interactions and the role hierarchy …

This study introduces the novel construct of bridge-economy partners, which can assist
Western firms in learning how to collaborate with local partners when entering unfamiliar …

This study examines firm internal network structures as a defense of intellectual property
rights (IPR) in high-risk environments with inadequate IPR protection. Specifically, we …