A neural network analysis of the influence of strategic and relational motivation on acquisition of inter-organisational network ties in the Ghanaian automobile cluster

Hu Xuhua, Michael Addai, Bertha Ada Danso and Chosniel Elikem Ocloo

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2018, vol. 6, issue 3, 181-202

Abstract: The acquisition of inter-organisational network ties remains a functional pre-requisite in the survival of a business venture. We sought in this study, to explore the extent to which strategy-driven motivational factors and relational motivational factors significantly influence acquisition of inter-organisational network ties. Our data was procured from a sample of 150 managers and owners of small scale automobile firms recruited from an automobile cluster in Ghana. We adapted but modified a feed-forward neural network model where data propagate along the connections in the direction from the network inputs to the network outputs from the extant literature. Our results showed a complementary relationship between the effects of interactions that precede the development of cooperation among organisations and strategic forces which involve the deployment of a firm's core competencies. We proposed the need for automobile SMEs in Ghana to harness potential sources of competitive strength such as previous experience of working together with others.

Keywords: strategic motivation; relational motivation; network ties; acquisition; inter-organisational. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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