Stoyan
Sgourev, who works with MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor
Ezra Zuckerman on the impact of industry peer groups, has been awarded a Sloan
Industry Center Fellowship to work at IMVP headquarters at MIT beginning in
May 2004.
Sgourev, who receives a PhD in sociology from Stanford University this spring, completed a dissertation titled "Motivation, Comparison and Network Structure: Going the Extra Mile in Networks of Peers." He has coauthored papers with Zuckerman on the economic role of industry peer networks including "Report on the Survey of Remodeling General Contractors" and “Peer Capitalism: The Role of Parallel Relationships in the Market Economy."
At IMVP, Sgourev will focus on auto Industry Peer Network (IPN) groups, which involve more than a third of U.S. auto dealers. These groups are industry peers – but not competitors – who share information and develop close ties.
"The main questions I seek to address in my study concern the implications of IPN membership for the knowledge base, market performance, and improvement attitudes of participating auto dealers" Sgourev said. "The research agenda includes the collection of survey and performance data to examine the dimensions of value from IPN membership."
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