Nelson Casarotto Filho

1. Introduction Cooperation between small- and medium-sized firms has led to the formation of inter-organizational networks to minimize the scarcity of resources faced by these firms, generating greater financial efficiency (Emami et al. 2022), opportunities for collective learning (He et al. 2021) and collaborative innovations (Cheboi et al. 2022). Formal and long-term cooperative agreements among the forms of inter-organizational networks define Strategic Networks (SNs).