A process-based model of network capability development by a start-up firm
dc.contributor.author | McGrath, Helen | |
dc.contributor.author | Medlin, Christopher J. | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Toole, Thomas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-10T12:20:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-10T12:20:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-12-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2018-01-09T11:30:54Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Start-up firms are notoriously resource and time poor. One way of addressing these deficits is to develop strategic capability to access, activate and co-shape resources with other firms in the start-up's network. The capability literature assumes such a development is inevitable, provided a start-up survives. But developing network capability depends on the managers of other firms, the deepening managerial understanding of business relationships, and the ability of the start-up managers to adjust to and understand interdependence in networks. We present a processual model of how managerial understanding of network capability develops, comprising of three parts each building on the earlier: (i) in relationships, (ii) through relationships and (iii) in the network. The model was inductively developed from a longitudinal study of a start-up firm. Also, two sensemaking processes were found to predominate รข problem solving and social-cognitive processes. Our model highlights the role of the start-up manager in sensemaking with managers across a number of firms to resolve commercial problems. Thus, the independence many start-up managers seek must turn towards interdependence. Second, managers' temporal horizons and the specific temporal profile of events and activities inside the involved business relationships are important in understanding and developing, with other firms, network capability. | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | McGrath, H., Medlin, C. J. and O'Toole, T. (2017) 'A process-based model of network capability development by a start-up firm', Industrial Marketing Management, 80, pp. 214-227. doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.11.011 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.11.011 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 227 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0019-8501 | |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | Industrial Marketing Management | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 214 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/5264 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 80 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Inc. | en |
dc.rights | ยฉ 2017, the Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Business relationship development | en |
dc.subject | Capability understanding | en |
dc.subject | Entrepreneurship | en |
dc.subject | Network capability | en |
dc.subject | Start-up firm | en |
dc.subject | Temporal process model | en |
dc.title | A process-based model of network capability development by a start-up firm | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
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