Social Capital in Multinational Corporations and a Micro-Macro Model of its Formation

By T. Kostova, Kendall Roth. 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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The Bridging Role of Expatriates and Inpatriates in Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations (2016, background): “Assignees transfer knowledge indirectly by acting as boundary spanners that link homeand host-unit staff, thereby developing inter-unit social capital and facilitating the exchange of previously unconnected knowledge across MNC units (Kostova & Roth, 2003; Reiche et al., 2009).”
Knowledge flow and inter-firm networks: The influence of network resources, spatial proximity and firm size (2010, background): “…particularly in its tacit form, can be accessed both within and across organizations (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998; Tsai and Ghoshal 1998; Gargiulo and Benassi 2000; Tsai 2000; Kostova and Roth 2003; Oh, Chung, and Labianca 2004; Inkpen and Tsang 2005; Walter, Lechner, and Kellermanns 2007).”
Social Capital and Knowledge Integration in Digitally Enabled Teams (2008, background): “Extensive relational social capital has been shown empirically to enhance knowledge exchange among scientists (Bouty 2000), improve interunit interactions in multinationals (Kostova and Roth 2003), and increase new product development team performance (Hansen et al. 1999).”
Human Resource Configurations, Intellectual Capital, and Organizational Performance. (2004, background): “Thus, it is not surprising that there has been a recent surge in interest and research surrounding social capital (e.g., Adler and Kwon, 2002; Kostova and Roth, 2003).”
The role of international assignees' social capital in creating inter-unit intellectual capital: A cross-level model (2009, methodology): “Because cross-unit exchange is likely to be less frequent and less regular than interactions among individuals within an organizational unit (Kostova and Roth, 2003), network stability over time becomes increasingly important for developing relational social capital.”
Balancing global and local strategic contexts: expatriate knowledge transfer, applications, and learning within a transnational organization (2007, background): “As an active boundary spanner, the expatriate is well placed to facilitate the connections between their host subsidiary and the headquarters or other subsidiaries of the global firm (Kostova & Roth, 2003; Nohria & Ghoshal, 1997; Thomas, 1994).”
Cross-Sector Alliance Learning and Effectiveness of Voluntary Codes of Corporate Social Responsibility (2006, background): “In terms of social capital accumulation, then, positive interactions of a large number of functionally dispersed boundary spanners at different hierarchical levels with alliance partner members should greatly influence social capital at the organizational level (Kostova and Roth 2003).”