The Importance of Social Capital to the Management of Multinational Enterprises: Relational Networks Among Asian and Western Firms

By Michael A. Hitt, Ho-uk Lee, Emre Yucel. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Internationalization and the performance of born-global SMEs: the mediating role of social networks (2007, background): “networks of relationships and organizational actions (Gulati, 1995; Adler and Kwon, 2002; Hitt et al., 2002; Inkpen and Tsing, 2005).”
Guanxi and leader member relationships between American managers and Chinese employees: open-minded dialogue as mediator (2007, background): “Multi-national companies (MNCs) are advised to adapt their approaches and rely on local human resources to realize the competitive advantages of an international joint venture ( Hitt, Lee, & Yucel, 2002 ).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “The networks between individuals are referred to collectively as ‘social capital’ (Hitt et al., 2002).”
Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters, and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory (2013, background): “This is consistent with the well-established finding in the literature that individuals in Asian societies tend to build stronger interpersonal networks, both inside the family and with friends, than their Western counterparts and to leverage them for business (cf. Redding, 1990; Fukuyama, 1995; Ham”
Corporate social responsibility, the cost of equity capital and ownership structure: An analysis of Chinese listed firms (2015, background): “For the cost of equity, Woolcock (1998) and Hitt et al. (2002) suggest that SOEs can obtain more social capital and have more financing channels because of their close relationship with the government.”
Performance implications of nonmarket strategy in China (2007, background): “Firm level influence in the public process—by purposefully managing government relations—is one means of shaping and controlling the firm’s competitive environment, thereby leading to superior performance compared to competitors (Boddewyn & Brewer, 1994; Hillman, Zardkoohi, & Bierman, 1999 ).”
Knowledge management in technology-focused firms in emerging economies: Caveats on capabilities, networks, and real options (2007, background): “But to date, there have been limited efforts to connect the concepts of social capital/networks with that of such relationships ( Hitt, Lee, & Yucel, 2002 ).”
The dynamics of guanxi in Chinese hightech firms: Implications for knowledge management and decision making (2006, background): “In Korea, the concept of inmak literally refers to people connections, including whom and how many one knows and relates to family, education and and or regional ties (Hitt et al. 2002).”
Why Firms Engage in Corruption: A Top Management Perspective (2009, background): “Due to the importance placed on inter-personal relationships and social capital in India, and in other emerging markets (Hitt et al., 2002), the use of interviewers, who had some social or business network connection with the respondents, was expected to help mitigate this risk.”