Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hagedoorn,John
Author-Name: Duysters,Geert
Author-workplace-name: MERIT 
Title: Learning in Dynamic Inter-firm Networks - The Efficacy of Multiple Contacts
Abstract: This paper examines the relevance of both an efficiency-based network strategy and a learning-based network strategy in the context of inter-firm partnering. The effect of these different forms of network behaviour on company performance is analysed for companies in the international computer industry. Strategies associated with learning through so-called exploratory networks appear to generate a greater impact on technological performance in a dynamic environment than efficiency strategies through exploitative networks.
Keywords: industrial organization ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2000
Number: 009
File-URL: http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=288
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File-Size: 101661
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2000009