Research at the intersection of social networks and strategic management identifies a range of performance-enhancing network position advantages - access to partners, information, innovation, and resources - that are distributed differentially across network positions. This book discusses network processes.

The rise of ecommerce as an epidemic in the small world of venture capital. Ownership and Control: A Small-World Analysis. Evolutionary Dynamics of Inter-firm Networks: A Complex Systems Perspective. The Role of Dyadic Multi-Dimensionality in the Evolution of Strategic Network Ties. The structural evolution of multiplex organizational networks: Research and commerce in biotechnology. Industry consolidation and network evolution in U.S. global banking, 1986–2004. Actor utilities, strategic action and network evolution. Contradictory or compatible? reconsidering the “trade-off” between brokerage and closure on knowledge sharing. Industry Performance and Indirect Access to Structural Holes. The mobilization of scarce resources. Interconnect to win: the joint effects of business strategy and network positions on the performance of software firms. If the alliance fits. Bringing the firm back in: Networking as antecedent to network structure. The gloomy side of embeddedness: The effects of overembeddedness on inter-firm partnership formation. Imitative behavior: Network antecedents and performance consequences. Who's the new kid? The process of developing centrality in venture capitalist deal networks. Network horizon: An information-based view on the dynamics of bridging positions. The dynamics of network strategies and positions. Introduction: Evolving Webs in Network Economies. List of Contributors. Advances in Strategic Management. Network Strategy. Copyright page.