Building Relationships Across Multiple Levels for Born Global Innovation

This paper examines how variables such as relationships, network structures and degree of external collaboration at one level of analysis influence innovation at another level. The analysis suggests that a dominance of weak ties is required for exploration in open creativity networks, whereas strong ties are required for exploitation in more closed process networks. Empirical results illustrate how social networks are dominating the organizational networks and act mainly as antecedents of organizational networks, and how social ties at the individual level of analysis interact with institutional and economic ties at the organizational level to drive born global innovation.

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