embedded path of existing alliances and form new alliances with new partners. While new partners are mostly found through the …

organizational structure. We use the organizational-structure information to map farmer alliances and characterize alliance networks …Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less … likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance …

The structure of alliance networks influences their potential for knowledge creation. Dense local clustering provides … firms embedded in alliance networks that exhibit both high clustering and high reach (short average path lengths to a wide … range of firms) will have greater innovative output than firms in networks that do not exhibit these characteristics. We …

'actor-oriented' and 'institutional' perspectives, and proposes that the evolution of policy is driven by interests, networks …, alliances and discourses, which are largely determined by the power and resources that can be mustered by specific actors. A …

alliance decisions of states highly interdependent. Our aim here is to model the network of alliances in such a way as to … the regression analysis of nonindependent dyads. We then show that alliances can naturally be conceived of as constituting … random graph model for analyzing interdependence in the alliance network and estimating the effect of covariates on alliances. …

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries …, we show that there do not exist any networks that are stable against the addition and deletion of alliances. We then show … that economic benefits from international trade can provide incentives to form alliances in ways that restore stability and …