"Cooperation for Competition: The Formation and Growth of ""strategic"" Networks in the International Motor Vehicle Industry, 1959-1988"

In this study, interorganizational linkages existing between motor vehicle manufacturers during the thirty years covered by the study are identified and classified into seven categories. Three clustering or network analysis algorithms (CONCOR, EBLOC, and KPLEX) are applied to various matrices for each year to determine groupings of cooperating actors (firms), and groupings of actors filling common roles or niches within the industry. The study attempts to develop measures of network cooperative activity, turnover, domain similarity, and power asymmetry, and develops several hypotheses with respect to these measures and profitability, market share, and stability which are intended to test the validity of Jarillo's (1988) "strategic networks" concept.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Adminstration

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Patterson, John Dennis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas, Howard

• Business Administration, Management

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9329133

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72311