The success and failure of policy-implanted inter-firm network initiatives: motivations, processes and structure

By Robert Huggins. 2000

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Balancing multiple interests: embedding innovation intermediation in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure (2008, background): “Huggins (2000) found that, although firms in hindsight recognise brokerage activities, and would be willing to financially contribute to the broker’s payment, they would”
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “Brokers mix and overlap the “hard” business and “softer” social interests of entrepreneurs and build social capital with them (Huggins, 2000).”
ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION AMONG INDONESIAN AND NORWEGIAN STUDENTS (2004, background): “The study of entrepreneurship has increasingly reflected the general agreement that entrepreneurs and new companies must engage in networks to survive (Huggins, 2000).”
Change and the development of entrepreneurial networks over time: a processual perspective (2008, background): “Indeed, like Johannisson and Monsted ( 1997 : 112), it is possible to argue that networks are essential to the entrepreneurial process, since they ‘provide a framework for processes aiming at organizing resources according to opportunities' (see also Arocena 1984 , Szarka 1990 , Bruderl and Preise”
Factors Affecting Business Success of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand (2011, background): “(8) strategy (McMahon, 2001), (9) external environment (Huggins, 2000; and Nurul Indarti & Marja Langenberg, 2005); and (10) internet (Henriette Hesselmann, Comcare, and Peter Bangs; 2002).”
Orchestrating innovation networks: The case of innovation brokers in the agri-food sector (2010, background): “2003; Van Looy, Debackere, and Andries 2003) and how they are embedded within SME networks and the innovation system (Huggins 2000; Klerkx and Leeuwis 2008a; Laschewski, Phillipson, and Gorton 2002).”
Developing entrepreneurship and enterprise in Europe's peripheral rural areas: Some issues facing policy-makers (2006, background): “This point has wider application, since to be effective any policy intervention involving small firms should be sensitive to the needs and behavioural traits of its target group(s), both in conception and delivery (Huggins, 2000 ).”
Clusters for life or life cycles of clusters: in search of the critical factors of clusters' resilience (2014, background): “According to Klepper (1996), ‘the number of producers grows initially and then reaches a peak, after which it declines steadily despite continued growth in industry output’.”
The articulation of social capital in entrepreneurial networks: a glue or a lubricant? (2002, background): “Social capital, networks and entrepreneurshi p 2.1 Networks and entrepreneurship In recent years, the entrepreneurship literature has highlighted the signi® cance of social networks in the creation and sustaining of new ventures (Aldrich et al. 1987, Carsrud and Johnson 1989, Huggins 2000).”
Business Networks and Economic Development in Rural Communities in the United States (2010, methodology): “Business networks are thus defined as mutually beneficial relational contracts between two or more legally independent firms that involve the sharing or exchange of resources (Gulati, 1998; Huggins, 2000; Parkhe, 1993; Reijnders & Verhallen, 1996; Yoshino & Rangan, 1995).”
Firm networks: external relationships as sources for the growth and competitiveness of entrepreneurial firms (2003, methodology): “We argue that a qualitative research approach is well suited to better explain network content and inter-ﬁrm processes (Blackburn et al. 1991, Pihkala et al. 1999, Huggins 2000), and to answer the why’s and how’s of entrepreneurial ﬁrm growth processes (Yin 1984).”
Local Embeddedness and Rural Entrepreneurship: Case-Study Evidence from Cumbria, England (2006, background): “Last, Huggins (2000) developed an index of competitiveness in the United Kingdom that is particularly useful for the purposes of our research.”
Why Networks Enhance the Progress of New Venture Creation: The Influence of Social Capital and Cognition (2009, background): “Indeed, it is often argued that entrepreneurs must network in order to survive (Huggins, 2000).”