TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring dynamic multi-level linkages in inter-organizational networks
AU - Tang, Fangcheng
AU - Xi, Youmin
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments We would like to thank editor-in-chief Andrew Delios, who has provided us with opportunity and inspiration. We would also like to thank Kevin Zheng Zhou and Irene Hau-siu Chow for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper at the special issue conference of APJM. We gratefully acknowledge insightful comments from Anand Swaminathan and an anonymous referee on earlier versions of this paper. Finally, funding came in part from the National Science Excellent Innovation Research Group Fund of China under contract No. 7012001, and from the Postdoctoral Foundation of China under contract No. 2005038072.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - When an organization pursues the goals specific to its environment, networks are constructed to gain various resources from other collaborators. However, most individual studies on inter-organizational network have taken a simplified view of relationships among member organizations by focusing on a static and single level linkage. This paper proposes a multi-level approach to integrate resource, organization and network levels and explores the relationship between these levels. This enables us to identify a set of important micro, meso and macro linkages between resource, organization and network. Operational measures and results are illustrated via a case study from an incubator system of Xi'an High-tech Park of China. The case study demonstrates that one level triggers the changes of other levels.
AB - When an organization pursues the goals specific to its environment, networks are constructed to gain various resources from other collaborators. However, most individual studies on inter-organizational network have taken a simplified view of relationships among member organizations by focusing on a static and single level linkage. This paper proposes a multi-level approach to integrate resource, organization and network levels and explores the relationship between these levels. This enables us to identify a set of important micro, meso and macro linkages between resource, organization and network. Operational measures and results are illustrated via a case study from an incubator system of Xi'an High-tech Park of China. The case study demonstrates that one level triggers the changes of other levels.
KW - Centrality
KW - Cluster
KW - Density
KW - Inter-organization network
KW - Multi-level approach
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U2 - 10.1007/s10490-006-7166-9
DO - 10.1007/s10490-006-7166-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645557391
SN - 0217-4561
VL - 23
SP - 187
EP - 208
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
IS - 2
ER -