The evolution of firm networks: from emergence to early growth of the firm

By Julie M. Hite, W. Hesterly. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Social capital in the growth of science-and-technology-based SMEs (2008, background): “…of science-and-technology-based small firms, which are often individually driven and in which the social networks of the entrepreneur provide the basis for collaboration (Vanhaverbeke, 2001; Hite & Hesterly, 2001; Brüderl & Preisendörfer, 1998; Lechner & Dowling, 2003; Starr & MacMillan, 1990).”
The Importance of Social Capital to the Management of Multinational Enterprises: Relational Networks Among Asian and Western Firms (2002, background): “HITT, LEE AND YUCEL of new firms and the growth of existing firms, primarily because they provide access to resources needed to survive and compete in local, national and global markets (Hite and Hesterly, 2001).”
Determining Factors in Innovation of Small Firm Networks: A case of Cross Industry Groups in Japan (2006, positive): “Hite and Hesterly (2001) develop a network theory emphasizing that cohesive networks and strong ties are complementary to performance in the emergence period, while sparse networks and weak ties are complementary to performance in the early growth period of new firms.”
Performance Spillover Effects in Entrepreneurial Networks: Assessing a Dyadic Theory of Social Capital (2010, background): “Hite and Hesterly (2001) argue for the importance of entrepreneurial firms being part of cohesive network structures, and studies show how cohesion implicitly predicts performance.”
How Network Strategies and Institutional Transitions Evolve in Asia (2005, background): “Overall, we suggest that business networks in Asia not only differ in strength but also in content, and that their evolution is driven by the impact of different dimensions of institutional transitions.”
International Exposure Through Network Relationships: Implications for New Venture Internationalization (2013, background): “As explained by Hite and Hesterly (2001), when new ventures first emerge, there is a high reliance on identitybased or informal networks that have developed from preexisting relationships in their surrounding environment.”
Friends, Family, or Fools: Entrepreneur Experience and its Implications for Equity Distribution and Resource Mobilization (2012, background): “…that family ties would help mobilize more personal resources from the network, the reduced access to different types of contacts and a less diverse set of resources would imply that the entrepreneurs raise fewer professional resources needed for the nascent venture (Hite and Hesterly, 2001).”
The impact of network structure on knowledge transfer: an application of social network analysis in the context of regional innovation networks (2010, neutral): “Hite and Hesterly (2001) suggest that firms at an early stage of development gain higher benefits from a more cohesive network whereas they exploit network benefits that derive from bridging structural holes when they arrive at more advanced stages of their development.”
A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on how Collaboration Intensity, Trust, and International Market Knowledge affect Family Firms' Multinationality (2016, background): “…as more intimate sources of information for internationalization (Musteen et al., 2010), and are more likely to draw on the rich social capital within their existing collaborative ties first to acquire information (Kontinen & Ojala, 2011b), regardless of its strategic value (Hite & Hesterly, 2001).”
Collaboration and innovation: a review of the effects of mergers, acquisitions and alliances on innovation (2005, background): “Empirical studies into networks are available (Gulati, 1999; Hite and Hesterly, 2001; Uzzi, 1996, 1997), but only a handful actually connects network strategies and network positions to success measures.”