THE EFFECTS OF FOUNDER-CEO ATTRIBUTES ON ALLIANCE FORMATION OF VENTURE START-UPS: A SOCIAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVE.

Recent studies have focused on which networks would help entrepreneurs to become successful and what would be the best mix of strong ties and weak ties to build an organization upon. With this longitudinal research we add insights into the process of network development on an individual level and complement earlier research on this topic.This article explores the development of strong and weak ties in the social network of student entrepreneurs and the role five mechanisms of social networking play in the process of opportunity recognition, resource mobilization and gaining legitimacy, through a longitudinal case study among 17 student start-ups in the period 2009-2013.All student entrepreneurs started their businesses in the last two years of their bachelor education, part of a venture creation program. They were interviewed directly after they had started their businesses, and their activities were monitored while they were developing their businesses and networks over a period of three years.This study adds to the current social network literature by analyzing how student entrepreneurs use social networking while being involved in the entrepreneurial process of starting a business and especially make use of the advantages of being a student, i.e. being part of the network and having access to the resources of the university. Successful student entrepreneurs distinguish themselves of the rest by keeping on adding valuable connections to their network, having no fear in asking for help and profiting of the goodwill in the business world towards student entrepreneurs.This article can be of use for both academics and practitioners.

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The Corporate Social Network (CSN) in SME's

Key Challenges and Opportunities in Web Entrepreneurship - Advances in E-Business Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2466-3.ch002 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 33-52

Author(s):

Isabelle Choquet ◽

Jacques Folon

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Collective Intelligence ◽

Early Stage ◽

Efficient Tool ◽

Start Up ◽

The Creation ◽

Corporate Social ◽

Start Ups

The authors intend to demonstrate that corporate social networks (CSN) are a very efficient tool for SME's and start-ups, since their early launch. They will immediately create an interactive structure and a culture of collective intelligence. The chapter aims at revealing how SMEs or start-ups are able to capture the opportunities provided by CSNs, perceived as proximity social networks. The research investigates if the use of CSN at the launch of the SME promotes the development of a collective intelligence culture, but also if several CSN may coexist within the same structure according to the needs encountered: “above-the-flow” approach (dialogue, exchanges) or “in the flow” approach (integration of workflow and document). The authors strongly believe that CSN has to be introduced by a web entrepreneur at the early stage of creation of his start-up, because it supports the scaling of the business, allowing the creation of a knowledge sharing culture, making the knowledge available inside the company.

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sonSQL: An Extensible Relational DBMS for Social Network Start-Ups

Conceptual Modeling - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_43 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 495-498

Author(s):

Zhifeng Bao ◽

Jingbo Zhou ◽

Y. C. Tay

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Start Ups

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Alliance Formation in the Midst of Market and Network: Insights From Resource Dependence and Network Perspectives

Journal of Management ◽

10.1177/0149206316630379 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 1899-1925 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Jun Xia ◽

Yonggui Wang ◽

Ya (Lisa) Lin ◽

Haibin Yang ◽

Sali Li

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Resource Dependence ◽

Social Power ◽

Social Forces ◽

Alliance Formation ◽

Primary Industry ◽

Dependence Logic ◽

Alliance Networks ◽

Positive Effects ◽

The Social

Alliances are often formed as a response to challenges from both market and social forces. Although the resource dependence logic posits that firms enter into alliances to stabilize resource flows between different markets and also to increase market power in their primary industry, it remains unclear whether the social power of firms, generated from alliance networks, may motivate firms to respond differently to the dependence logic of alliance formation. By incorporating social network theory, we argue that a firm’s social network advantages in the primary industry may serve as critical contingency conditions of the dependence logic. Analyses of firms in the U.S. computer industry from 1994 to 2007 suggest that a firm’s centrality advantage marginally reduces the positive effects of market dependencies on alliance formation, whereas a firm’s brokerage advantage enhances the market dependence effect.

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MOVING BEYOND FACTIONS: USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO UNCOVER PATRONAGE NETWORKS AMONG CHINESE ELITES

Journal of East Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/jea.2015.3 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 17-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Franziska Barbara Keller

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Political Elite ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Alliance Formation ◽

Social Network Structure ◽

Informal Politics ◽

The World ◽

Working Together

AbstractInformal connections play an important role in regimes all across the world, but among China's political elite, it is particularly factional affiliation that is said to structure contention over who will rule and who will fall victim to a purge. This article identifies two approaches to measuring factional ties in the literature: theexploratoryapproach traces alliance ties through qualitative assessment of insider sources, while thestructuredapproach uses publicly available data to infer factions from shared characteristics. The article combines the two by arguing that informal politics is better conceptualized as a process of alliance formation shaped by an underlying social (network) structure. Among the structured approaches, coworker networks best capture the latter, but this can be further refined by noting the number of instances of working together, or by taking into account promotions that have occurred while the two individuals were coworkers.

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The Influence of Multinational Corporations on International Alliance Formation Behavior of Colocated Start-Ups

Organization Science ◽

10.1287/orsc.2019.1315 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 770-795

Author(s):

Barak S. Aharonson ◽

Suleika Bort ◽

Michael Woywode

Keyword(s):

Multinational Corporations ◽

Network Centrality ◽

Vicarious Learning ◽

International Expansion ◽

Alliance Formation ◽

Regional Network ◽

Formation Behavior ◽

Alliance Experience ◽

Start Ups ◽

The Impact

We theorize that vicarious learning theory provides a framework for understanding how small- and medium-sized start-ups can learn from the activity of a variety of regional actors, not just from the activity of colocated peer firms (i.e., other start-ups). Furthermore, we suggest that the magnitude of the impact of vicarious learning is influenced by a firm’s own specific experience with a variety of actors. We use longitudinal data of the population of German biotechnology start-ups and pharmaceutical multinational corporations (MNCs) between 1996 and 2015 across 19 German biotechnology regions. We show that colocated start-ups’ international expansion is positively impacted by the regional network centrality of colocated MNCs and that this relationship is moderated by a start-up’s direct alliance experience with these entities. Our results highlight how important it is for researchers to differentiate the distinct and separate influences a wide variety of actors have on vicarious learning to more clearly identify outcomes of this influence. We also provide evidence that the influence of MNCs is heterogeneous and depends on whether MNCs are domestic or foreign and on their R&D intensity, yet find that country of origin has no significant influence. Our study makes a number of contributions, one of which is research on alliances, supporting conflicting arguments on the subsequent impacts of experience. We further find that certain types of alliance experience may not be transferrable to induce start-ups’ future international expansion, and in some cases may even hinder it.

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The social network

Skin & Allergy News ◽

10.1016/s0037-6337(13)70045-7 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

ALAN ROCKOFF

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

The Social

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