Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing new ideas and implementing them. Recent research suggests that connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas, while closure makes it possible to act on them. By contrast, we argue that entrepreneurship is not about...

Case studies of five major Taiwanese businessgroups are used to examine how personal relationships function in theentrepreneurial process. A review of the literature on group formation in EastAsia reveals that personal relationships (Guanxi) are regarded as anintegral part of business creation...

This study aims at disentangling the decision of interlocking directors along the hierarchy of business groups. Considering boards as information-processing groups and grounded in agency theory and resource dependence theory, the monitoring and advising functions in the relationship between...