The Impact of Social Network on Alliance Capability

摘要：

A theoretical as well as empirical analysis of influence factors of alliance capability is presented. This study uses data collected from 147 Chinese firms to investigate the relationships between alliance capability and one of its key influencing factors,namely, social network. The paper firstly gives a clear definition of alliance capability and analyzes the basic structure of alliance capability. Then, this paper concretely analyzes the social network and its relationship with alliance capability. Based on the analysis,this paper proposes a series of assumptions and constructs corresponding models. In order to test those theoretical models for reasonable, the paper puts forward a Structural Equation Model (SEM), which is validated by a large sample including 147 Chinese firms. The empirical results are complied with the papers research design and hypotheses.

关键词： Social network Alliance capability Impact

作者: Zheng ShengHua

作者单位: College of Business and Administration, Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R.China, 310023

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 2068-2073

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）