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| Author: | Mahmood, I.P. Zhu, H. Zajac, E.J. |
| Title: | Where can capabilities come from? Network ties and capability acquisition in business groups |
| Journal: | Strategic Management Journal
2011 : AUG, VOL. 32:8, p. 820-848 |
| Index terms: | contingency theory models R&D networks |
| Freeterms: | business groups capability acquisition |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study examines how firms' multiplex network ties in business groups represent one important source of capability acquisition (herein as: cap-acqn). The focus goes beyond the traditional focus on network structure, offering a new contingency model specifying how different types of network ties, e.g. buyer-supplier, equity, and director, individually and in combination, will differentially affect the process of R&D cap-acqn. Provided is also an original analysis of how other aspects of network structure, that is, network density, in business groups affect the efficacy of network ties on R&D capability. Empirically, an original contribution to the capabilities (here as: capbs.) literature is offered through using a stochastic frontier estimation for measuring firm capbs. etc. |
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