Small businesses face multiple constraints on innovating that open innovation (OI) has potential to help overcome. The aim of this study is examine the association between business group affiliation and extent OI engaged in by SMEs. Unlike independent SMEs, those have affiliations might benefit from internal also external networks initiate partnerships innovate. We analysed data collected 711 F...

This paper formalizes a special type of social networking knowledge, which is called “workflow performer-role affiliation networking knowledge.” A workflow model specifies execution sequences of the associated activities and their affiliated relationships with roles, performers, invoked-applications, and relevant data. In Particular, these affiliated relationships exhibit a stream of organizati...

This study examines the impact of business group (BG) affiliation on international sales intensity and diversification in small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by using a multi-country sample over 13,000 SMEs from 34 European countries. Drawing revised Uppsala internationalization model network theory, this paper suggests that effects BG depend geographical dispersion ties, size age firm, insti...

This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian firms affiliated to business groups and unaffiliated firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated firms, business group firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration leve...

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: Institutional and transaction cost theories highlight the idea that group-affiliated firms outperform unaffiliated firms in emerging economies. However, the persistence of superior performance among group-affiliated firms could be challenged by the recent, quick development of markets and institutions in these countries. This article explores ...

Article history: Received 25 April 2012 Received in revised form 29 August 2013 Accepted 5 September 2013 Available online 13 September 2013 This paper examines the relation between business group affiliation and the cost of debt capital. The co-insurance effect associated with business groups can reduce the cost of debt, while expropriation by controlling shareholders can raise the cost of deb...