Emergenz und Persistenz staatlich geförderter mittelständischer Innovationsnetzwerke und ihrer Promotoren
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description: Despite the high significance of leadership in networks, this topic has largely remained unexplored. To contribute to this field this thesis examines the network management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) whose participants cooperate for the purpose of joint innovations. With a focus on the effective management functions, which were operationalized according to Witte’s promoter model, a qualitative preliminary study (n=23) was used to first discuss inductively which management functions network members assign to network managers. In order to expose the respective network management as a situational factor of influence on the innovation success of a network, the main quantitative study (n=893) investigated deductively, by means of a multi-level analysis, which management functions a) contribute to the quality or quantity of innovation, b) influence the emergence of network and management structures and c) affect the exchange quality (Leader-Member-Exchange, LMX) with the network members. In addition to this, the relevance of the context factor 'time' or network phase was examined in relation to individual management perceptions. The results show that network managers recognized as expert and relationship promoters have a positive effect on innovation quality, while managers recognized as power and relationship promoters rather facilitate innovation quantity. Innovation quality decreases in the course of the cooperation; the network manager in his function as a relationship promoter is able to counteract this trend in later phases of the network. Furthermore, a theory has been developed to gain insights into the emergence of leadership structures and persistence of government-funded SME networks. A distinction could be made between network managers (as network-external, explicit leaders) and network initiators (as network-internal, implicit leaders). The networks were typed according to the incentives (product orientation, user orientation, trend orientat…
abstract: Despite the high significance of leadership in networks, this topic has largely remained unexplored. To contribute to this field this thesis examines the network management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) whose participants cooperate for the purpose of joint innovations. With a focus on the effective management functions, which were operationalized according to Witte’s promoter model, a qualitative preliminary study (n=23) was used to first discuss inductively which management functions network members assign to network managers. In order to expose the respective network management as a situational factor of influence on the innovation success of a network, the main quantitative study (n=893) investigated deductively, by means of a multi-level analysis, which management functions a) contribute to the quality or quantity of innovation, b) influence the emergence of network and management structures and c) affect the exchange quality (Leader-Member-Exchange, LMX) with the network members. In addition to this, the relevance of the context factor 'time' or network phase was examined in relation to individual management perceptions. The results show that network managers recognized as expert and relationship promoters have a positive effect on innovation quality, while managers recognized as power and relationship promoters rather facilitate innovation quantity. Innovation quality decreases in the course of the cooperation; the network manager in his function as a relationship promoter is able to counteract this trend in later phases of the network. Furthermore, a theory has been developed to gain insights into the emergence of leadership structures and persistence of government-funded SME networks. A distinction could be made between network managers (as network-external, explicit leaders) and network initiators (as network-internal, implicit leaders). The networks were typed according to the incentives (product orientation, user orientation, trend orientat…
author: Ringwelski, Julia
language: de
license: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
date published: 2017
date modified: 2026-07-27T21:28:49Z
provider: Technische Universität Berlin
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Technische Universität Berlin

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