The Smart Card Firms' Network Positions:: A Social Network Analysis

Zouhaier M'Chirgui

European Management Journal, 2007, vol. 25, issue 1, 36-49

Abstract: Based on a social network analysis, as a methodology that can be used to analyze the relationships among people, as well as a proprietary database built by ourselves on inter-firm agreements formed in the smart card industry, this paper analyses the role and the influence of particular firms on the formation of inter-firm partnerships in this industry over the period 1997-2003. These inter-firm partnerships lead to the development of networks in which smart card incumbents as well as large financial providers are the central players and take a leading role in their formation.

Keywords: Social; network; analysis; Smart; card; Alliances; Knowledge-based; network; oligopoly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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