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Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation
Analyzing a unique, domain-similar database including all horticulturalists in a major flower producing country, this paper shows that a firm’s central position in a network significantly improves its financial performance. The effect of strategic positioning in a network is in large part mediated t...
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| author | Wilfred Dolfsma Rene Van der Eijk |
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| description | Analyzing a unique, domain-similar database including all horticulturalists in a major flower producing country, this paper shows that a firm’s central position in a network significantly improves its financial performance. The effect of strategic positioning in a network is in large part mediated through its enhanced innovativeness. Strategically positioning in a network of firms contributes more to firm performance, both directly as well as indirectly, than other strategic options a firm has available, such as seeking scale, seeking to diversify, pursuing cost advantages, or locating in a cluster. |
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| spelling | rr-article-94640452016-01-01T00:00:00Z Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation Wilfred Dolfsma (1383795) Rene Van der Eijk (7185221) Innovation Firm strategies Network position Performance Analyzing a unique, domain-similar database including all horticulturalists in a major flower producing country, this paper shows that a firm’s central position in a network significantly improves its financial performance. The effect of strategic positioning in a network is in large part mediated through its enhanced innovativeness. Strategically positioning in a network of firms contributes more to firm performance, both directly as well as indirectly, than other strategic options a firm has available, such as seeking scale, seeking to diversify, pursuing cost advantages, or locating in a cluster. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/22198 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Network_position_and_firm_performance_The_mediating_role_of_innovation/9464045 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Innovation Firm strategies Network position Performance Wilfred Dolfsma Rene Van der Eijk Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation |
| title | Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation |
| title_full | Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation |
| title_fullStr | Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation |
| title_short | Network position and firm performance – The mediating role of innovation |
| title_sort | network position and firm performance – the mediating role of innovation |
| topic | Innovation Firm strategies Network position Performance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22198 |