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Social capital, strategic relatedness and the formation of intraorganizational linkages
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In this article, the authors investigated the evolutionary dynamics of network formation by analyzing how organizational units create new interunit linkages for resource exchange using sociometric techniques and event history analysis, and found that the interaction between social capital and strategic relatedness significantly affects the formation of intraorganizational linkages.Citations
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Knowledge Transfer in Intraorganizational Networks: Effects of Network Position and Absorptive Capacity on Business Unit Innovation and Performance
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Social Structure of Coopetition Within a Multiunit Organization: Coordination, Competition, and Intraorganizational Knowledge Sharing
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The Development of Organizational Social Capital: Attributes of Family Firms*
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The New Public Governance? 1
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
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Foundations of Social Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior is proposed. But the approach is not suitable for large-scale systems.
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Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage
Janine Nahapiet,Sumantra Ghoshal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that incorporates this overall argument in the form of a series of hypothesized relationships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and proces.