Firm networks and firm development: The role of the relational mix ☆

By C. Lechner, Michael Dowling, Isabell M. Welpe. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Innovation in family firms: an empirical analysis linking organizational and managerial innovation to corporate success (2011, background): “The survey was targeted at key respondents (e.g. Kumar et al. 1993; Lechner et al. 2006) in management positions (i.e. owners, CEOs, general managers) as the supposedly most knowledgeable sources of information.”
The role of entrepreneurial orientation in service firms: empirical evidence from Austria (2013, unknown): “the so-called ‘key informants’ (Kumar, Stern, & Anderson, 1993 ), considered by previous research as the ‘single most knowledgeable and valid information sources’ (Lechner, Dowling, & Welpe, 2006 , p.”
Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research (2011, background): “Lechner, Dowling, and Welpe (2006) study the role of the so-called relational mix on young firm development in the three German-speaking countries.”
The Impact of Social Capital on the Start-ups’ Performance Growth (2010, background): “It seems to decrease the likelihood of failures in coordinating task interdependencies among start-ups and customers involved in the knowledge exchange during the innovation process (Lechner, Dowling, and Welpe 2006; Gargiulo and Benassi 1999).”
Prior knowledge and social networks in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (2010, background): “Finally, the strong links with other entrepreneurs and managers confer greater legitimacy and improve their status (Galaskiewicz 1985; Lechner et al. 2006).”
The economics of COVID-19: initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis (2020, methodology): “We employed a purposive sampling technique (Guest et al., 2006; Morse et al., 2002), interviewing key informants such as top management team members (e.g. CEOs or COOs) or IJEBR the responsible area managers (Lechner et al., 2006).”
Social Capital of Entrepreneurs and Small Firm Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Contextual and Methodological Moderators (2014, background): “Specifically, we build on the idea that small firms' network requirements might change over time (Lechner et al., 2006; Slotte-Kock and Coviello, 2010) and consider how the optimal form of social capital differs for new and old small firms.”