关键词: 企业间网络, 核心企业, 网络权力, 企业间领导力, 商业生态

Abstract:

Based on the analysis of“Big Taobao”ecological network,this study explores hub firms' power and inter-firm leadership in the context of inter-firm networks.The results show that two types of network power are formed from the extension of inter-firm network: structure-driven power and capability-driven power;with the development of inter-firm network,structure-driven power and capability-driven power firstly interact with each other,with a subsequent tendency of co-evolution, thereby maintaining the efficacy of the inter-firm coordination mechanisms;network power lowers the effect of joint sense-making between the hub and partners,thus affecting the improvement of inter-firm leadership;consequently,the hub firm has to foster technological,platform,and institutional leadership in different phases by introducing formal authority.By extending literature of network management from the perspective of relationship asymmetry,this study helps to enhance the explaining power of relationship management theory which was originally built on the basis of symmetric network structure, and contributes to deepening the theoretical research of inter-firm relationship under asymmetric network structure.

Key words: inter-firm network, hub firm, network power, inter-firm leadership, business ecology