While clique-embeddedness is generally considered to enhance firm performance, there are also reasons to expect that under conditions of technological turbulence clique-membership is less beneficial or might even become a liability. To address this, we study the innovative performance of clique...

Alliance cliques have been largely neglected in technological alliances studies. In this study we show that cliques offer an interesting angle to analyze why certain firms are better in going beyond local search than others. Clique spanning ties can be expected to have strategic advantages for...