Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The Influence of Strong Ties, Network Cohesion, and Network Range on the Transfer of Knowledge Between Organizational Units

By Marco Tortoriello, Ray E. Reagans, Bill McEvily. 2012

523 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/06af4a547f054a0c3ffddc042316a4cf6f5da348

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Paul M. Leonardi
2. Gina Dokko
3. Aimée A. Kane
4. Blaine Landis
5. Marco Tortoriello
6. Emmanuelle Vaast
7. Ivano Cardinale
8. Ann Majchrzak

In Strategy and Management

1. Paul M. Leonardi
2. Aimée A. Kane
3. Gina Dokko
4. Blaine Landis
5. Marco Tortoriello

Citations in the corpus

• Innovation intermediaries and collaboration: Knowledge–based practices and internal value creation (2018, unknown): “Our results show that it is the knowledge attributes and routines of intermediaries ’ sta ff and their attitudes (Gavetti, 2005; see also Tortoriello et al., 2012, 2014) as well as the support given to them in terms of knowledge capitalisation (but not practices allowing sta ff more empowerment) that…”
• Personality and social networks in organizations: A review and future directions (2016, background): “The strength of ties between people in organizations implies something about the amount of investment needed to maintain the tie and the type of knowledge, information, and advice that pass between two people sharing a tie (Granovetter, 1973; Hansen, 1999; Tortoriello et al., 2011).”
• One of Us or One of My Friends: How Social Identity and Tie Strength Shape the Creative Generativity of Boundary-Spanning Ties (2014, methodology): “A similar methodology has been used in studies of knowledge transfer, which have relied on one relational partner to provide an assessment of the ease of transferring knowledge to another relational partner (Reagans & McEvily, 2003; Tortoriello et al., 2012).”
• Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation: Toward a Theory of Communication Visibility (2014, background): “However, as Treem and Leonardi (2012) show in their detailed review, social media are making routine communications occurring among coworkers even more visible to third parties than the many communication technologies that preceded them.”