Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks Export

@article{citeulike:2328643, abstract = {Using data collected from multiple respondents in all the business units of a large multinational electronics company, we examined the relationships both among the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital and between those dimensions and the patterns of resource exchange and product innovation within the company. Social interaction, a manifestation of the structural dimension of social capital, and trust, a manifestation of its relational dimension, were significantly related to the extent of interunit resource exchange, which in turn had a significant effect on product innovation.}, author = {Tsai, Wenpin and Ghoshal, Sumantra}, citeulike-article-id = {2328643}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/257085}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/257085}, doi = {10.2307/257085}, journal = {The Academy of Management Journal}, keywords = {intellectual\_capital, knowledge\_management, social\_networks}, number = {4}, pages = {464--476}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 10:26:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/257085}, volume = {41}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2328643 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2328643 N2 - Using data collected from multiple respondents in all the business units of a large multinational electronics company, we examined the relationships both among the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital and between those dimensions and the patterns of resource exchange and product innovation within the company. Social interaction, a manifestation of the structural dimension of social capital, and trust, a manifestation of its relational dimension, were significantly related to the extent of interunit resource exchange, which in turn had a significant effect on product innovation. IS - 4 JF - The Academy of Management Journal EP - 476 TI - Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks VL - 41 SP - 464 KW - intellectual_capital KW - knowledge_management KW - social_networks AU - Tsai, Wenpin AU - Ghoshal, Sumantra PY - 1998/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/257085 ER -