INTRODUCTION In recent years, International Business (IB) research has paid increasing attention to the role of networks in today's interconnected business environments (e.g., Cuypers et al., 2020; Iurkov & Benito, 2018; Prashantham et al., 2019). The network perspective has shifted IB scholars’ attention toward the web of relationships in which actors are embedded, which provides them with both opportunities and constraints for internationalization (Granovetter, 1985).
