Social networks and industrial geography

By Olav Sorenson. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Regions Matter: How Localized Social Capital Affects Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition (2012, background): “…Marshall (1890) and Jacobs (1969), various studies have analyzed knowledge spillovers and highlighted their localized nature (e.g., Alcácer and Chung 2007, Almeida and Kogut 1999, Bell and Zaheer 2007, Gambardella and Giarratana 2010, Jaffe et al. 1993, Owen-Smith and Powell 2004, Sorenson 2003).”
Innovator networks and regional knowledge base (2008, background): “Knowledge flows and small world properties We focus on a specific feature of innovator networks, their function as a knowledge transfer channel (Sorenson 2003).”
Desperately Seeking Spillovers?: Increasing Returns, Industrial Organization and the Location of New Entrants in Geographic and Technological Space (2007, positive): “Through these networks flows information about promising new technical developments and important unsolved puzzles that can stimulate innovation by facilitating novel combinations of ideas and technologies and identifying emerging market opportunities (Sorenson, 2003; Stuart and Sorenson, 2003; Owen”
The persistence of regional new business formation-activity over time – assessing the potential of policy promotion programs (2007, background): “Innovative incumbent firms may serve as an incubator of new businesses by providing a seedbed for spin-offs (Klepper and Sleeper 2005; Agarwal et al. 2004; Klepper 2001; Sorenson 2003).”
Italian industrial districts as cognitive systems: Are they still reproducible? (2011, background): “The latter may be business relationships, for example a relationship with an important customer that allows to get insights about the market or learn innovative management tools, but also personal connections such as family ties or other social networks (Elfring and Hulsing 2003; Sorenson 2003).”
“Geography of Opportunity”: Poverty, Place, and Educational Outcomes (2008, background): “The research literatures of business and economics describe the role of industrial clusters and networks in communities (Gordon & McCann, 2000; Heathcott & Murphy, 2005; Snyder, Johns, Mongan, & Utaski, 2003; Sorenson, 2003).”
Internationalization and the performance of born-global SMEs: the mediating role of social networks (2007, background): “…strong ties are characterized by frequent and stronger social interactions, where information is perceived to be more trustworthy (Granovetter, 1985), and thus more effective in the transmission of tacit, complex knowledge for experiential learning (Borgatti and Cross, 2003; Sorenson, 2003).”
The Strength of Strong Ties in an Emerging Industry: Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Status Hierarchies and Personal Ties in Venture Capitalist Decision Making: The Strength of Strong Ties (2015, neutral): “Further, network density and associated proximity increases the likelihood of interactions between industry actors (Sorenson, 2003).”
Strategic networks and entrepreneurial ventures (2007, background): “In fact, this precise possibility led us to write a series of articles arguing that social network-based processes can explain the geographic clustering of industries (Sorenson and Audia, 2000; Sorenson, 2003; Stuart and Sorenson, 2003a, 2003b).”
What do we know about geographical knowledge spillovers and regional growth?: A survey of the literature (2006, background): “S orenson ( 2005 ) looks at the entrepreneurial process to explain the emergence of firm networks and argues that personal social networks among managers of already existing firms allow an exchange of information on the relative profitability of their activities.”
Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography (2009, background): “These contacts are hard to initiate and sustain over a large distance (Mason and Harrison 2002; Stuart and Sorenson 2001; 2003).”
Rural–Urban Linkages and Sustainable Regional Development: The Role of Entrepreneurs in Linking Peripheries and Centers (2016, background): “Since they strongly rely on external sources of knowledge, social capital becomes crucial for acquiring valuable external knowledge sources [36,37].”