ADVANCES IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Series Editor: Joel A. C. Baum Recent Volumes: Volume 15:
Disciplinary Roots of Strategic Management Research
Volume 16:
Population-Level Learning and Industry Change
Volume 17:
Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management
Volume 18:
Multiunit Organization and Multimarket Strategy
Volume 19:
The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management
Volume 20:
Geography and Strategy
Volume 21:
Business Strategy over the Industry Lifecycle
Volume 22:
Strategy Process
Volume 23:
Ecology and Strategy
Volume 24:
Real Options Theory
ADVANCES IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT VOLUME 25
NETWORK STRATEGY EDITED BY
JOEL A. C. BAUM Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
TIMOTHY J. ROWLEY Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Barak Aharonson
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Andreas Al-Laham
Lehrstuhl fu¨r Internationales Management, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern
Terry L. Amburgey
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ted Baker
College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Joel A. C. Baum
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ronald S. Burt
Graduate Sch