Purpose – This study aims to investigate how corporate lobbying affects the relationship between collaboration networks and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The study incorporates insights from the corporate political strategy perspective into the social network research to examine...

Purpose – Drawing on the strategic choice and resource dependence perspectives, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate political strategy and innovation in the manufacturing industry in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes two...

How do ego-networks evolve? How does such evolution affect firms’ innovation output? This chapter uses a longitudinal sample of firms in the biotechnology industry to address these questions. We use social network theory to develop a model of the structure and dynamics of firms’...