| Authors | Definition of Network | Authors | Definitions of Networking |
| | A network is the relationships between a firm’s management team and employees with customers, suppliers, competitors, government, distributors, bankers, families, friends, or any other party that enables it to internationalize its business activities. | | Networking is defined as the process of building long-term contacts with the motive to have access towards information and resources. |
| | Networks can be defined as patterned, beneficial relationships between individuals, groups or organizations that are used to secure critical economic and non-economic resources needed to start and manage a business. | | Networking can be formal and informal links that are created to allow its members to have cost-effective economic transactions. |
| | Networks are structures of exchange relationships among business actors, firms as well as individuals - structures which emerge, evolve and dissolve over time in a continuous and interactive process. | | Networking is the link between a business, its owner or its employees with other individuals or businesses, that involves exchanging of resources. |
| | Networks are relationships that create connections between two or more independent entities. | | Networking is a set of connected sustained relationships, that involves cooperation and collaboration which is mutually beneficial to all members. |
| | Networks are long-term contacts between small business owners and external actors (persons or organizations) in order to obtain information, moral supports and other resources. | | Networking can be defined as purposefully striving to make formal and informal contacts and to form relationships. |