The Nature of the Business Group: A Social Network Perspective
针对文献中“企业集团”概念使用模糊的问题，提出企业集团由相互关联的企业网络、制度化的互惠逻辑以及内外行动者的主体间解释三个要素构成，并建议采用社会网络视角进行分析。
This article takes as its point of departure the ambiguous and inconsistent way in which the concept of the ‘business group’ and other associated concepts has been used in the literature to describe and label different types of interfirm relationships. To remedy this state of affairs, a preliminary conception of the business group is presented and elaborated upon, in which the business group is conceptualized as comprising three analytically separable elements: network(s) of interrelated firms, the institutionalized logic of reciprocity, and the intersubjective interpretation of actors inside as well as outside the group. Further, a social network perspective on organizations is suggested for the analysis of business groups.