The structure of supply chains has important implications for the propagation of shocks and the dispersion of welfare gains across space. Using transaction-level tax records, we study over four million firm-to-firm relationships of 57,500 formal private sector firms in Kenya. We find that the...

We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences, and different network layers. At the individual...

In today's highly competitive markets, firms no longer compete as independent entities but as business networks. Partnerships are crucial for firms to be relevant in network competition. Starting and evolving partnerships require investing time and resources in nurturing relationships. The...

Modern software development involves collaborative efforts and re-use of existing software packages and libraries, to reduce the cost of developing new software. However, package dependencies expose developers to the risk of contagion from bugs or other vulnerabilities. We study the formation of...

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger system that allows multiple parties to record and verify transactions in a secure and transparent manner. However, blockchain networks are vulnerable to anomalies and frauds that can have serious consequences for the integrity and security of these...

In this paper, we present new referential statistics for supply chain exposure to concentration risk of global production networks. The study’s net contribution rests on the development of a metric that indicates exposure risk in terms of the frequency of supply chain engagement with the...

We consider a productive network formed by agents with heterogeneous privately-known productivity types. Under convex cost of link formation, bilateral links create endogenous externalities. We calculate the "rearrangement cost" imposed on the entire network by each subset of other agents an...

This paper presents a tractable model of endogenous production networks with fixed costs associated with the formation of links between firms. The model consists of a finite number of firm types producing differentiated products. Each firm is characterized by firm-specific parameters describing...

Think tanks' role as development policy entrepreneurs and lobbyists is well recognised. Like NGOs, think tanks have also acted as classical intellectual labour cofounded by local and international agencies. This research examines organisational network of Indonesian think tanks. This study aims...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been evolving for more than a decade and it became a part of our daily life. The conventional used device is becoming more smart and autonomous due to the advancement of the technology. The connected devices are increasing exponentially, and it leads to the more...

Understanding that sustainability transitions (ST) are embedded in global networks of capitalist production, this paper proposes a research agenda using the Global Production Networks (GPN) to explain the relational geographies of sustainability transitions. A cross-fertilisation between GPN and...

This paper explores the prominent and enduring brokerage role of Hong Kong in facilitating mainland Chinese companies’ US listings. We argue the brokerage role needs to be interpreted in both global and territorial dimensions. Situating Hong Kong in the global context, it utilises its...

The beneficial relationship of entrepreneurial orientation with performance has been extensively acknowledged in the literature. However, empirical evidence is not straightforward and requires consideration of the interplay of different variables, context, and rationales through which this...

This paper presents a tractable model of endogenous production networks with fixed costs associated with the formation of links between firms. The model consists of a finite number of firm types producing differentiated products. Each firm is characterized by firm-specific parameters describing...

A crucial assumption in organization theory is that product architectures form a stable basis on which firms make strategic choices, over a period of time. However, emerging digital technologies challenge this idea, by allowing firms to redesign architectures at will. In this paper, we explore...

Expert networks provide investors with in-depth discussions with subject matter experts. Expert call demand is higher for younger, technology-oriented firms and those with greater intangible assets, consistent with demand for information on hard-to-value firms. Expert calls are more (less)...

Purpose: This study aims to list the managerial implications arisen from an interaction between a brewery and a Brazilian government agency grounded in the Lean principles of value co-creation through a case study.Design/Methodology/Approach: Empirical data on the actors were collected through...

Climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy affect the Norwegian and global economy in many ways. To gain greater insight into how these changes affect the Norwegian economy, Norges Bank has asked a selection of Norwegian enterprises on three occasions in recent years how...

We derive closed-form solutions and sufficient statistics for inflation and GDP dynamics in multi-sector New Keynesian economies with arbitrary input-output linkages. Analytically, we decompose how production linkages (1) amplify the persistence of inflation and GDP responses to monetary and...

This paper documents a positive impact of customer innovation on supplier innovation across US sectors. This result is robust with respect to innovations of other firms within the same industry (industry spillovers) as well as within the same regions (geographical spillovers). Our exploration of...

Industry uncertainty networks extracted from option prices contain valuable information for business cycles. Classifying U.S. industries according to their contribution to system-related uncertainty, we uncover an uncertainty hub role for the communications, financials, IT and real estate...

Due to the fact that there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of how the dynamic nature of supply chain networks (SCNs) interrelates with network structures, particularly network topologies under disruptions. This research employs a novel evolving model of a supply chain network (SCNE...

This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...

Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export participation and investigate whether firms' domestic...

This paper examines the literature on paradoxes and tensions in interorganizational relationships (IORs) and identifies how such tensions are managed in interorganizational settings. In a systematic literature review, we analyzed 95 papers published between 1997 and 2021 on the subject of...

This paper studies structural change in production networks for intermediate inputs (input-output network) and new capital (investment network). For each network, we document a declining fraction of production by goods sectors and a rising fraction of production by services sectors. We develop a...