1. Network position and firm performance – the mediating role of innovation.
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Dolfsma, Wilfred and van der Eijk, René
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HORTICULTURAL products industry , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *BUSINESS networks , *FINANCIAL performance , *COST effectiveness , *STRATEGIC planning - Abstract
Analysing a unique, domain-similar database including all horticulturalists in a major flower-producing country, this paper shows that a firm’s central position in a network significantly improves its financial performance. The effect of strategic positioning in a network is in large part mediated through its enhanced innovativeness. Strategically positioning in a network of firms contributesmoreto firm performance,bothdirectly as well as indirectly, than other strategic options a firm has available, such as seeking scale, seeking to diversify, pursuing cost advantages, or locating in a cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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