Position in Corporate Network, Performance and Strategic Risks

• Authors: Światowiec-Szczepańska Justyna , Zdziarski Michał

Title variants

PL

Pozycja w sieci firm a wyniki i ryzyko strategiczne

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

PL

Pytanie o czynniki warunkujące wyniki firm jest kluczowe w teorii nauk o zarządzaniu. Determinanty wyników mają charakter zarówno egzogeniczny, jak i endogeniczny. Literatura nurtu sieciowego podkreśla znaczenie dostępu do zewnętrznych zasobów dostępnych dla firm poprzez ich uczestnictwo w sieci. Głównym celem prezentowanych badań jest testowanie zależności między pozycją firm w sieci a wynikami. Badanie zostało przeprowadzone na populacji firm, których akcje są notowane na Giełdzie Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie. Autorzy testowali zależności między pozycją strukturalną a wynikami w dwóch sieciach, w których uczestniczy ten sam zestaw firm: sieci współwłasności i sieci relacji w radach nadzorczych. W celu określenia pozycji strukturalnej firm w sieciach wykorzystano metody analiz sieci społecznych (SNA). Rezultaty wskazują na znaczenie sieci współwłasności i pozycji, jakie zajmują w nich firmy, dla wyników i ryzyka.

EN

The fundamental question of management research is to explore the determinants of differences in company performance. These determinants are both exogenous and endogenous. Network literature highlights the importance of access to external resources available to a firm through its network. The main objective of the presented research is primarily to test the relationship between the performance of companies and their position within a network. The empirical field of this research covered companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. We test effects of structural positions in two networks among the same set of companies linked by boards and ownership ties. Social network analysis (SNA) methods were used to determine positional characteristics of firms. The results of our research underline the importance of ownership links and firms’ positions in corporate networks for firms’ performance and strategic risk.

Keywords

PL

sieci firm; pozycja sieciowa; analiza sieci społecznych; wyniki; ryzyko

EN

corporate network; network position; social network analysis; performance risk

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Problemy Zarządzania
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4/2016 (64), t.2
• Pages: 157 - 176

Contributors

author

Światowiec-Szczepańska Justyna

• Poznań University of Economics and Business

author

Zdziarski Michał

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management

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Identifiers

ISSN

1644-9584

DOI

10.7172/1644-9584.64.9