Linking Network Structure to Collaborative Governance

Valuing the project: a knowledge-action response to network governance in collaborative research

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Linking Network Structure to Ecommerce Demand: Theory and Evidence from Amazon.com's Copurchase Network

We report on a research project that studies how network structures affect demand in electronic commerce, using daily data about the graph structure of Amazon.com’s co-purchase network for over 250,000 products, gathered over this year. We describe how the presence of such network structures alters demand patterns by changing the distribution of traffic between ecommerce web pages. When this tr...

Linking Industrial Innovation Dynamics to E-Procurement Governance

This paper investigates the effect of IT on a firm’s procurement governance. While some scholars posit that IT-enabled reduction in transaction costs will lead to more electronic markets, others claim that electronic partnerships will be the predominant governance for procurement. Empirical evidence about the IT effect on procurement governance is mixed. We argue that the phase of the industria...

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Modes of Network Governance: Structure, Management, and Effectiveness

This article examines the governance of organizational networks and the impact of governance on network effectiveness. Three basic models, or forms, of network governance are developed focusing on their distinct structural properties. Propositions are formulated examining conditions for the effectiveness of each form. The tensions inherent in each form are then discussed, followed by the role t...