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Marketing and strategy

Network effects of interlocking directorates

This project studies how relationships between managers at board level affect the international expansion of small and medium-sized companies. We use unique longitudinal data to develop and test how the company's network position affects this expansion.

Concluded

Start

2018-07-01

Conclusion

2021-07-01

Research area

Project manager at MDU

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The intended output of this project is to build theoretically sound and empirically verifiable models which seek to explain how board managers interlocking network ties matter for possibilities to internationalize. Results could further inspire researchers to more carefully investigate what combinatory network ties that matters most for a certain market or industry, such as between what firms, or industries, or what combinations of experience that are important.

This research relates to the following sustainable development goals