“…The network analysis would be another way to measure them that would allow us to obtain more objective information, but due to the scope of the study, aimed not at a specific network of companies, but at the study of all the companies belonging to the Spanish footwear sector, the questionnaire is the methodology that allows us to fulfil our objective. Additionally, we can find numerous examples of studies that use also our same methodology to measure relational variables (Chang, Liu, & Chang, 2019; García‐Villaverde, Elche, Martínez‐Pérez, & Ruiz‐Ortega, 2017; Mostafa & Bottomley, 2020: Rodrigo‐Alarcón, García‐Villaverde, Ruiz‐Ortega, & Parra‐Requena, 2018; Ruiz‐Ortega, Parra‐Requena, García‐Villaverde, & Rodrigo‐Alarcon, ; Sani, Mohd‐Khan, & Noorv, 2019, among others).…”