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"Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation"
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"Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation," is not a quick read, though the author tries hard to soften a knot of strategy research with true-life examples from several technology companies.Abstract:
Dorothy Leonard-Barton warns readers upfront that her new book, "Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation," is not a quick read. Indeed it is not, though the author, a Harvard Business School professor, tries hard to soften a knot of strategy research with true-life examples from several technology companies. Unfortunately, business books tend to be like Arnold Schwarzenegger movies: the special effects and twists are a lot more important than the basic plot, which doesn't change much.read more
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Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage
Janine Nahapiet,Sumantra Ghoshal +1 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the construct of team psychological safety, a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking, and test it in a multimethod field study.
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Shareholder value, stakeholder management, and social issues: what's the bottom line?
Amy J. Hillman,Gerald D. Keim +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the relationship between shareholders' value, stakeholder management, and social issue participation and find that, while the latter is positively associated with shareholders' wealth, the former is negatively associated with their value.
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From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory
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