“…Social network theory investigates organizations in a network environment, as the term implies (Soda, Usai, and Zaheer, 2004;Pacheco, York, Dean, and Sarasvathy, 2010;Whelan, 2011;Greenacre, Freeman, and Donald, 2013;Ghosh and Rosenkopf, 2015;Liu, Sidhu, Beacom, and Valente, 2017). In organizational networks, actors can have mutual links that will benefit them with access to resources, information, stronger business performance, and success (Banova, Mishkovski, Trajanov, and Kocarev, 2010;Öberg, 2012;Golonka, 2013;Mierzejewska and Dziurski, 2021). Our focus related to the social network theory lies in the investigation of the existence and features of relations because they provide the required resources for these establishments and increase legitimacy (Gulati, Dialdin, and Wang, 2005).…”