@phdthesis{Colmorn2016,
  author    = {Colmorn, Richard},
  title     = {Cooperative Competitive Advantages of International Supply Networks},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:579-opus-1005991},
  school    = {IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {International Supply Networks (ISN) will compete with each other increasingly in the future through Cooperative Competitive Advantage (CCA) on the network level as a result of the cooperative interplays on the individual level. Therewith, a multilevel consideration is needed for investigating the potential emerging characteristics on the network level and the effects of an ISN on the company success that can be summarised in the following two research questions: What are CCA and what are the causal relations between an ISN and the company success? The theoretical relevance of these two research questions is the result of an identified gap of knowledge concerning definitions about CCA and a gap of knowledge about theoretical explanations in the meaning of cause-and-effect relations between ISN and the company success as well as assigning competitiveness to a whole ISN. With regard to the scientific modus operandi the Thesis comprises a complexity-based research model for hypothesizing the effects of the structural complexities on the network and the individual level, a Network Science-based Structural Equation Model with measurement models for the structural complexity, for CCA and for the company success and an empirical data set collected from secondary data containing over 55.000 supply relationships of the German automotive industry for the empirical validation. As a result of the computation with MATLAB, the falsifiable assumptions of the complexity-based research model cannot be completely statistically falsified but the directions of the causal relations are confirmed by trend so that first potential functional relations for the Strategic Complexity Management can be drawn. Consequently, the research contributes to scientific insights to that effect that an explanation approach is developed able to draw conclusions concerning the two research questions. Future research will focus on a deepening and widening of theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects.},
  language  = {en}
}