Confidence and Self-confidence: Perceived and Real

There are many situations in which social interactions and emerging social phenomena play important and, sometimes, fundamental roles. In our particular case we are studying networks of small to medium enterprises. In these enterprise networks each individual enterprise keeps its own identity but works in close collaboration with the others in order to produce something that the enterprises working alone would not be able to produce. The very fact that the enterprises are small to medium (mostly small in practice) means that there are very few employees, i.e. ranging from 1 to 10 in most cases. Because of this, when we try to model such a network, we are obliged to take into account the human factors. For example, two company heads who have a close affinity are more likely to achieve a successful collaboration even when their respective commercial fields are different.