Toward managing threats to SME growth via networks: an empirical study based on network and resource based view

This paper highlights elements like competitors, clients, personal contacts, and institutions that compose networks for different types of firms, and attempts to show how these elements combine to create networks. The objective of the paper is to see how different dedicated network configurations affect firm performance, taking into account both the performance measures stated in entrepreneurs' discourses and accounting measures mentioned in literature, such as turnover and number of employees.