This paper investigates the evolutionary dynamics of a dual social structure encompassing collaboration and conflict among corporate actors. We apply and advance structural balance theory to examine the formation of balanced and unbalanced dyadic and triadic structures, and to explore how these...

Today's firms are increasingly embedded in networks of alliances that influence their behavior and performance. Ranjay Gulati examines the 'network resources' that arise from these ties, how successful firms manage these, and how they influence strategy, access to resources, and perceptions of a...

The present study examines the effect of the information obtained through close inter-firm ties on the investor's risk-adjusted returns. We suggest that there is a closely connected tie between an investor and an entrepreneurial firm if the investor is a limited partner of the entrepreneurial...