“What do interlocks do” revisited – a bibliometric analysis

Smith, Matthew; Sarabi, Yasaman

doi:10.1108/mrr-05-2020-0258

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“…Themes in this quadrant are known as niche themes. They are under-represented topics but are areas of rapid development as they are indicated by high centrality but low density [42]. The theme 'manufactures' lies in the border of the two quadrants on the top.…”

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Additive manufacturing towards product production: a bibliometric analysis

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Additively manufactured products offer extensive variety to consumers than many forms of production. Additive manufacturing (AM) production system allows consumer involvement, which has created a huge but largely untapped market. However, there is a gap between production and the market. Therefore, AM towards product production which focuses on the Commercialization of Additive Manufactured Products (CAMPs) is imperative. Despite the importance of CAMP, specific focus of research on the commercialization of additively manufactured products are scanty. There is also a lack of knowledge about the conceptual structure, intellectual structure, research trends, and the thematic structure of CAMP research. To contribute to this stream of research, this study takes an exploratory dimension by conducting a bibliometric analysis of publications on the CAMP. The R package and its associated biblioshiny were the software used. The study reveals that studies on CAMP started in 2007 with renewed interest starting from 2012. Importantly, it was found that the most cited articles focused on the economic potential of AM products in the home and specific industries. Also, there is an increasing focus on the business models that are necessary for the commercialisation of AM products. Generally, there is a shift in focus from the firm to the market. However, this is a niche area and requires more attention. Themes such as commercialization are just emerging, and researchers need to devote more time and effort to the consumer side of the commercialization of AM products.

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Additive manufacturing towards product production: a bibliometric analysis

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“…The research on interlocking directorates suggest different paradigms as explanations for why interlocks are created (Smith and Sarabi, 2021a). Over the years, the idea of interlocks as a controlling mechanism has changed into interlocks as a transfer mechanism.…”

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Gendered brokerage and firm performance – An interlock analysis of the UK

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McGregor

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PurposeCorporate success depends partially on the quality of knowledge accessible to the executive board. One route of access to such knowledge is the appointment of directors who already hold directorships with prominent other corporate actors. Such director appointments provide interlocks to a corporate knowledge ecosystem (Haunschild and Beckman, 1998). The purpose of this paper is to examine how linkages between companies belonging to different sectors impact firm performance and to examine how linkages created by female directors, as opposed to male directors, shape performance.Design/methodology/approachThis paper investigates the interlocks created between UK FTSE 350 companies from 2010 to 2018. It draws on network analysis to map the roles that male and female directors play in linking firms with varying sector classifications. The paper provides an examination of the impact of these roles on firm performance, through a panel data regression analysis.FindingsThis paper finds that there is an increase of inter-industry brokers over the period, and that men are still dominant in both the network and creating inter-industry ties amongst companies. However, the role of women in establishing these ties appears to be changing, and women are more important when it comes to create inter-industry ties among key economic sectors.Originality/valueThis paper provides a novel approach to examine the interplay between gendered inter (and intra) sectoral linkages and firm performance. It provides an original application of the two-mode brokerage analysis framework proposed in Jasny and Lubell (2015).

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“…However, this aspect is not the subject of this study. For a systematic literature review on interlocking directorates, seeLamb and Roundy (2016),Caiazza and Simoni (2019) andSmith and Sarabi (2020).4 According to the ID literature, companies do not always implement a conscious ID strategy that leads to a specific position in a corporate network. According to the theory of class hegemony(Sonquist and Koenig, 1975), the theory of power elite(Domhoff, 1967(Domhoff, , 2014 and the management control model(Palmer, 1983), which considers ID on an individual level, an inter-corporate network of board members is motivated by private interests that are not necessarily convergent with those of the company itself or its shareholders.…”

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Impact of corporate network position on strategic risk and company’s performance – evidence from Poland

Światowiec-Szczepańska

Stępień

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the links between a company’s position in a corporate network with its financial performance and strategic risk in the context of the largest Central European stock market. Design/methodology/approach This study integrates the theory of social network analysis (SNA) with corporate governance theory with a special focus on resource dependence theory. Using the framework of network social analysis, the authors use network measures of social capital and embeddedness. Findings The results of studying companies listed on the Polish stock exchange indicate that a company’s corporate network position has a significant negative impact on strategic risk while having no influence on its financial performance. The research also highlights the importance of a firm’s corporate governance model for both performance and strategic risk. Research limitations/implications The data collected, and SNA measures used made it possible to conduct a cross-sectional study. Compared to longitudinal studies, this type of study has a couple of disadvantages addressed in the paper. In the future, the dependencies observed in this study should be tested using longer-term data. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first paper integrating the corporate personal and capital networks to test risk and performance dependencies in the context of Poland’s corporate governance model. The findings and conclusions can also be applied to analyzing Central and Eastern Europe stock markets.

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“What do interlocks do” revisited – a bibliometric analysis

Cited by 23 publications

References 94 publications

Additive manufacturing towards product production: a bibliometric analysis

Additive manufacturing towards product production: a bibliometric analysis

Gendered brokerage and firm performance – An interlock analysis of the UK

Impact of corporate network position on strategic risk and company’s performance – evidence from Poland

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