We offer a novel perspective on the role of sell-side analysts as information intermediaries in capital markets by documenting flow new direction, namely, from to firms they cover. use analyst coverage overlaps and patent citations examine analyst-induced spillovers about technology industry trends. Consistent with coverage–related flows, are more likely cite another firm's if that firm is cove...

The network structures of interfirm interactions have been linked previously to disaster resilience. However, the dynamic drivers of interfirm network structures rarely have been explored in the literature. This paper uses stochastic actor-oriented modeling to examine how networks of economic interactions among the 500 largest Japanese companies were created and maintained between 2010 and 2011...

This study provides a conceptual framework to analyze where the formal and informal inter-organizational interactions influence adoption decisions of open standards information systems (IOIS). Based on Internet, IOIS can help companies access broader markets make interfirm collaboration much easier cheaper.In spite these benefits, have not been widely adopted by for external connection, which l...

After e-commerce (electronic commerce) bubbled in the new millennium, the trend of information technology thus moved forward e-business (electronic business) manifestly. This is because e-business integrated and valued greater than e-commerce both in the physical and virtual networks. Also, it apparently shows that businesses are planning to achieve digitally tightened integration with supplier...

“Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness,” which originally appeared in American Science Quarterly 1997 (Vol. 42, No. 1), was recently recognized in an Academy of Management Journal editors' forum as a particularly valuable and compelling example of empirical research. In the paper, Uzzi illustrates how social embeddedness affects organization network...