This study investigates the origins of variation in the structures of interorganizational networks across industries. We combine empirical analyses of existing interorganizational networks with an agent-based simulation model of network emergence. Our insights are twofold. First, we find that...

Departing from prior research analyzing the implications of social structure for actors' outcomes by applying either the ego-network or the global-network perspective, this study examines the implications of network communities for the invention productivity of firms. Network communities...

This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the small-world system’s evolutionary dynamics at both the macro level of the...