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The strength of strong ties in the creation of innovation

Katja Rost
- 01 May 2011 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 4, pp 588-604
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In this paper, Burt's social capital theory complements Coleman's theory and shows that, in the presence of strong ties, weak network architectures (structural holes or a peripheral network position) have no value without strong ties whereas strong ties have some value without weak network architecture but are leveraged by this type of structure.
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This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 350 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Structural holes & Closed innovation.

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The Strength of Weak Ties

Mark Granovetter
- 01 May 1973 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

James S. Coleman
- 01 Jan 1988 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness

Mark Granovetter
- 01 Nov 1985 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications

Stanley Wasserman, +1 more
TL;DR: This paper presents mathematical representation of social networks in the social and behavioral sciences through the lens of Dyadic and Triadic Interaction Models, which describes the relationships between actor and group measures and the structure of networks.
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Foundations of Social Theory

James S. Coleman
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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This implies that weak network architectures have no value without strong ties, whereas strong ties have some value without weak network architectures but are leveraged by this type of structure. They suggest that open innovation will not work if closed innovation principles are pushed back. 

What is important is whether employees have the possibility to create strong relationships with some exchange partners and to be embedded in a few bridging relationships beyond their focal work groups. With respect to further research, the findings may be interesting for the concept of '' Open Innovation '' ( Chesbrough, 2003 ). Open innovation can be described as combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to advance the development of new technologies. Second, in particular, balanced open innovation principles may be beneficial.