The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including
organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has …

Background Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners facilitate transactions and the flow of
information between people or groups who either have no physical or cognitive access to …

Interest has burgeoned, in recent years, in how social networks influence individual
creativity and innovation. From both the theoretical and empirical points of view, this …

This precise study is the first to perform a focalized investigation on the relationship between
entrepreneurial business networks and sustainable performance of small firms. The …

An extensive body of knowledge exists on network outcomes and on how network structures
may contribute to the creation of outcomes at different levels of analysis, but less attention …

In this paper, we adopt a dynamic perspective on networks and creativity to propose that the
oft-theorized creative benefits of open networks and heterogeneous content are less likely to …

This article examines the governance of organizational networks and the impact of
governance on network effectiveness. Three basic models, or forms, of network governance …

This paper reviews the growing body of work on network dynamics in organizational
research, focusing on a corpus of 187 articles—both “micro”(ie, interpersonal) and …

Given the growing popularity of the social network perspective across diverse organizational
subject areas, this review examines the coherence of the research tradition (in terms of …

Open networks give actors non-redundant information that is diverse, while closed networks
offer redundant information that is easier to interpret. Integrating arguments about network …