Notice of RetractionThe research of enterprise boundary from the perspective of social network

Notice of Retraction

After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

The research of enterprise boundary had been done in a lot of field such as Classical Economics, Marxist Political Economy, Neoclassical Economics and New Institutional Economics. These research focused on comparative advantage and paid little attention to the situation that competition and cooperation existed at the same time. Based on the relationship among enterprises, the paper analyzed the influence of social network to the boundary of enterprises from the perspective of relation property and network location and network structure. Then some conclusions could be drawn. In the mean time some limitation existed in the research.